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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was told I shouldn't transition, and if I did, I'd never work again. That really bothered me.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I was living in that green room and accompanying them to all the different theaters that they worked at. So, that has always remained a nostalgic place for me and also one of great admiration. I was just so grateful that that passion they have for theater translated to me, because I always loved seeing it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents set a fantastic example for me in that their passion came from theater.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.
- Caucasian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I just have the stylist on set trim it for me. I don't dye my hair. When I was a teenager, I dyed my hair five colors at one time. It was all different shades of red going from more orange to more purple. I thought I looked so cool.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
- Extinguish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
- Asked
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come a long way from a girl with pigtails and acne showing up and going, 'Hey guys, I'm here! Where do you want me to fall over?'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was on 'Xena,' I remember the sound guy and the director at some point being like, you have to make sounds when you fight, and I was like, what are you talking about? You're never going to use it. But they hounded me for a good couple of hours, and basically it was, you need to act, you can't just perform the moves.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never occurred to me that being a stunt girl would get me recognized in any way, because the whole purpose of a stunt person is to not be known.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a stuntwoman, I never wanted anyone to ever feel afraid for me. I didn't want anyone to ever feel sorry for me.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt, and I also want it to be a project that is very personal to me, for my first one.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020