As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. Sophie Okonedo More Quotes by Sophie Okonedo More Quotes From Sophie Okonedo Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont 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 Im always struggling with it myself. Sophie Okonedo doctors struggle ideas I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across. Sophie Okonedo knows watches I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening. Sophie Okonedo long years fall I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black Sophie Okonedo black proud feels My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere. Sophie Okonedo car form exercise 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 want stuff love-is 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 feel myself look you 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 lose bad you people 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 face feel mind long 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 things good know nice 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 friend best black best-friend The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing. Sophie Okonedo person you theatre time 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 day you sleep time 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 job money work sometimes 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 think know trying character 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 look i-can character way 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 drive me home people 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 my-life know life television I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me. Sophie Okonedo think me positive people 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 i-am day hair long
