Nathalie Emmanuel Quotes

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

Sometimes you know about a job four months in advance. Sometimes you know about a job four days in advance. It's all different, and my thing is just to try to stay prepared. It's like being a boxer. You never know when you're going to get your next fight, so you have to just stay in shape, mentally and physically and creatively.

Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.

I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

I definitely don't do stomach, because nobody wants to see that.

Everything that you want to create is already there. Your job is to connect yourself to it.

It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.

We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

I want my personal life to be personal... And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

Whatever I want,' he says. 'Yes.' 'I'm afraid you haven't been privy to that dream yet.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

I don't really want to talk about my personal experience. It's something that I have talked about just because it came out in the press but I've tried to navigate the waters in my own comfort-ability.

An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.

If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?

I want to do the best job I can.