Naomie Harris famous quotes

05-16-2025

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
-- Naomie Harris

#Trends #Needs #Stylish
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.
-- Naomie Harris

#Eye #Worry #Soul
I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
-- Naomie Harris

#Thinking #People #Helping
Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
-- Naomie Harris

#Boss #Want #Humans
I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
-- Naomie Harris

#Girl #Thinking #Play
I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
-- Naomie Harris

#Believe #Praying
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
-- Naomie Harris

#Real #My Family #Streets
I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
-- Naomie Harris

#Directors #Fantastic
I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
-- Naomie Harris
I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
-- Naomie Harris

#Art #Masters #Drivers
I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.
-- Naomie Harris

#Want #Rolls Royce #Persons
I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
-- Naomie Harris

#Home #Leaving #Blame
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.
-- Naomie Harris

#Jobs #Children #Drama
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?'
-- Naomie Harris

#Character #Thinking #Done
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.
-- Naomie Harris

#Missing #Want #Next
Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid.
-- Naomie Harris

#Kids #Around The World #Location
I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
-- Naomie Harris

#Nice #Flower #Kissing
I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
-- Naomie Harris

#Thinking #Target #Skinny
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.
-- Naomie Harris

#Home #Offering #Generosity
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
-- Naomie Harris

#Party #Soul #Sides
Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
-- Naomie Harris

#Kids #Naughty #Phases
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
-- Naomie Harris

#Determination #Actors #Answers
As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
-- Naomie Harris

#People #Debt #Culture
At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
-- Naomie Harris

#Culture #Cambridge
Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
-- Naomie Harris

#Boss #Advice #Honest
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.
-- Naomie Harris

#People #Want #Reason
To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.
-- Naomie Harris

#Grateful #Kind #Really Amazing
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.
-- Naomie Harris

#Book #Grateful #Writing
I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done that. And I have always, whether I needed to pay the rent or not, I've always turned down roles which I thought were stereotypical. And so when I look at my body of work in that respect, I am really happy. Because I feel my work does say something positive and that was what I always set out to do.
-- Naomie Harris

#Play #People #Black

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