Ruth Negga Quotes

I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

Starting modeling in the '90s, it was quite surreal. They were like, 'You're so different! So weird! So bizarre!' And I'm like, 'I'm so normal. What are you talking about?'

People call me all kinds of things, I guess, because I'm a little different. I'm never what they expect.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

You are what you are and that fascinates me.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

My history defines who I am.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.