Ruth Negga Quotes

It's sad really, I think 'Freedom' would've done better, but it got shelved because of the pregnancy, so it might be something that might get revisited in the future; who knows?

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

The blessing of having your first project be something as fantastic as 'Girls' is that it gave me room to be selective because I didn't feel pressure to do other things. The curse is that my standards were really high.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

There weren't many options that came my way after Tum Bin.' Yet, people started expecting too much from me after that film.

I was so successful in Cleveland, and we moved to Los Angeles, and there was nothing for me to do. All of a sudden, from being a success, I was a has-been at 13.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.