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Success for me will be where the body of work I’ve done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I’m capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.

— Carmen Ejogo

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There’s a lot more opportunity to be a person of color, to be a woman, and to be at the center of the storytelling.

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

you need to be able to step outside yourself, and you don’t necessarily need to have real-life experiences to draw upon.

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