Okonedo Sophie Quotes & Sayings

My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere. — Sophie Okonedo

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people. — Sophie Okonedo

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. — George Sand

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing. — Sophie Okonedo

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town. — Helen Mirren

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening. — Sophie Okonedo

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better. — Eva Green

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on. — Sophie Okonedo

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to. — Sophie Okonedo

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover. — Sophie Okonedo

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself. — Sophie Okonedo

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me. — Sophie Okonedo

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor. — Martin Luther

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary. — Sophie Okonedo

I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across. — Sophie Okonedo

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes. — Sophie Okonedo

Perseverance is more than endurance.
It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered. — Oswald Chambers

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest. — Sophie Okonedo

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black — Sophie Okonedo

For one brief, the great black dog reared onto its hind legs and placed its front paws on Harry's shoulders, but Mrs. Weasley shoved Harry away toward the train door hissing, For heaven's sake act more like a dog, Sirius! — J.K. Rowling

When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say. — Sophie Okonedo

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast — Ruskin Bond

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. — Pablo Picasso

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life. — Daniel Radcliffe

Marriage is not difficult ... It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult ... — K.j. Force

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am. — Sophie Okonedo

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look. — Sophie Okonedo

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes. — Seneca The Younger

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. — Sophie Okonedo

~ Inspiration comes from the life lessons we view in everyday life. Everyone has the ability to be an
inspiration.
~ Motivation is the drive to be more than ordinary.
Motivate your dreams to become reality.
~If your dreams are never realized, they will only exist as fantasy. — D'Juana L. Manuel-Smith

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself. — Sophie Okonedo

When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice. — Sophie Okonedo

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. — Mark Hoppus

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all. — Jeff Kinney

Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so. — Robert G. Allen