- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
- Nov 07, 2020
Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
- Discussed
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it - but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You live for those pressure moments. Through an international career, you have ups and downs, but you always feel you are going to be tested in moments like that. It has taken me years to feel comfortable and to feel like I have good composure in those situations.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would not be right for me to pick and choose where, when, and in what format I play for the Proteas.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interests of the team must always outweigh the interests of any individual, including me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020