50 Quotes by Sophie Okonedo

If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of writers, and you get a bigger range of stories.

Being in the theatre is like being in a little family: you get really close.

I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you're constantly developing as you're doing it. It's really frightening. You don't quite know how it's going to end up.

My first love is a wonderful script. It's the story.

I love the industry I'm in, and it's been really generous to me.

To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.

With everything in my life, I don't think too much ahead.

I listen much better when I'm acting than I do in real life.

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.