Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you because it's clearer who they are. I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything. I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I'm not the most articulate person.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga

I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.