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Parminder Nagra

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"But my biggest passion is football."

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Donna Grant

"Football players win football games."

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Donna Grant

"Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died."

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Donna Grant

"I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball."

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Parminder Nagra
"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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Parminder Nagra
"I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession."

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Parminder Nagra
"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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Parminder Nagra
"In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children."

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Parminder Nagra
"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."

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Parminder Nagra
"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."

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Parminder Nagra
"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."

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Parminder Nagra
"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."

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Parminder Nagra
"Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions."

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Parminder Nagra
"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!"

Football

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