Thandie Newton

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and…

— Thandie Newton

I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way.

— Thandie Newton

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug…

— Thandie Newton

I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of…

— Thandie Newton

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white,…

— Thandie Newton

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this…

— Thandie Newton

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

— Thandie Newton

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

— Thandie Newton

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is…

— Thandie Newton

I feel like the sexy clothes put a bar between you. It's like putting an alcohol drenched piece of wood between you…

— Thandie Newton

Fear is just part of our DNA and our make-up. By definition, if we've had to be looked after for two years,…

— Thandie Newton

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

— Thandie Newton

Humans are really interesting. We're so clever, what we do with our brain. How we manage to con ourselves into thinking all…

— Thandie Newton

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in…

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Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just…

— Thandie Newton

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make…

— Thandie Newton

You're inviting hysteria with your boobs that are nearly showing nipple and your skirt that's nearly showing muff. You're exciting this hysteria…

— Thandie Newton

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in…

— Thandie Newton

Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear.…

— Thandie Newton

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

— Thandie Newton

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in…

— Thandie Newton

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like…

— Thandie Newton

“Respect your children. Treat them like the person you admire most on earth. I really mean that as a way of life.…

— Thandie Newton

I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables -…

— Thandie Newton