Nia Long Quotes

• I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn’t care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don’t mess with me and I’ve been doing some research on that so.

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• I have a beautiful son, I don’t regret it, I’m very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that’s our priority.

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• I was happy she got it and I have to sort of – and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work.

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• I took a little break – I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

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• You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it’s like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.

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• Well, the studios don’t really want to take those risks right off the bat. They’ll take the risk after they’ve seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

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• We’re all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things – balanced.

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• We haven’t even gotten a start date but we’ll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I’ve gotten a couple of other things but I’m not really committing myself to anything yet.

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• They have the big ferris wheel and we’ve been out of town for two months, so he just was like, ‘Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don’t care if you have a movie coming out and all that.’ He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

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• It’s my motor, it’s the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I’ve been working consistently.

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• It’s like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it’s all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it’s like a machine.

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• In terms of Cube I think he’s very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you’re just hired as an actor, you’re not really secure in that part of your work and you’re not really paying attention to where the camera.

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• I’ve seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

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• I’m not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what’s great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn’t have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.

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• I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I’m not nearly where I think I’m going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come.

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• I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it’s just about this opportunity – it’s just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.

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• I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I’m going to have to develop for myself.

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• I said ‘Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.’ He said, ‘oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don’t worry about it.’ But they’re not.

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• I know where I’m going to be, I’m not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn’t necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.

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• I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it’s me on that screen and I don’t have control over everything in this and I’m grateful and thankful.

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Nia Long (25)

Birth:	30th October, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Dancer

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