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"You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately."
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"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."

"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."

"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone."

"I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it."

"Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing."
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"In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience."

"But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England."

"I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be."

"Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule."

"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"

"Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook."

"I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask."

"Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got."
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