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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.

From Sophie Okonedo

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

From Sophie Okonedo

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.

From Sophie Okonedo

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't 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 I'm always struggling with it myself.

From Sophie Okonedo

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.

From Sophie Okonedo

My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

From Sophie Okonedo

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.

From Sophie Okonedo

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.

From Sophie Okonedo

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.

From Sophie Okonedo

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.

From Sophie Okonedo

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