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"In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!"
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"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys."
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"This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died."
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"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school."
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"I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please."
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"We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world."
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"But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football."
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"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."
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"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football."
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"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice."
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"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout."
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"That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn."
Acting
"I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that."
Culture
"At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there."
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"I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession."
Dream
"Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions."
People
"There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls."
Girls
"I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down."
People
"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in."
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"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really."
England
"And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled."
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