Naomie Harris Quotes

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Naomie Harris

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 6, 1976

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

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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.

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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

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

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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

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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.

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

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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.

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I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

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I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

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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.

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

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Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid.

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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?'

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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