Aja Naomi King Quotes

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Aja Naomi King

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 11, 1985

I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.

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You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

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A man should be well groomed. If you're going to have facial hair, it should be a choice, not an accident.

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Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.

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The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.

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I do everything on my phone!

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I majored in theater, so I'd love to get back on a stage.

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If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.

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It's such a big deal, the notion that these enslaved Africans had marriages and children... because therein lies our humanity, our capacity for love.

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It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.

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I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

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I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

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A man can get my attention by smiling at me and then coming over and talking to me. The best way to get a girl's attention is to start a conversation.

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I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

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I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.

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I really appreciate that: to walk into an environment where everyone is serious and dedicated to creating the best performance possible and challenging themselves to figure out the most interesting way to approach the work.

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Create something for yourself that you feel proud of, that you are in control of, that gives you a better understanding of the type of artist you want to be.

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My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake.

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I can be just a touch controlling!

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