Top 33 Naomie Harris Quotes

Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you’re grateful for each day. Now I’m constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I’m always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it’s OK because you made a great film, you know?

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It’s tough trying to fit in when you’re a kid; then you become an adult and you think, ‘I’m just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don’t.’ But you know what? I like me, and that’s the most important thing.

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

It’s true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don’t believe in wearing it every day. I think it’s really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.

I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

Hollywood ‘friends’ are only after one thing. They’re looking out for the next big thing, and they don’t want to miss out on you just in case.

We eat food all the time and don’t really understand what goes into something like bread.

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it’s just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

There weren’t really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

When you’re on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don’t believe in any set religion.

I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

I’ve never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

I was brought up in Britain, and I’m very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

I don’t think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character – ‘Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?’

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn’t blame Cambridge alone. I wasn’t ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

I don’t why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn’t.

I love Sam Mendes. He’s a fantastic director.

I think there’s nothing more amazing than helping people every day.

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss’s situation. That’s my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn’t do any work, yet it was so competitive.

I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don’t have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.