Nia Long Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn’t interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 don’t think you should reprimand your child for everything you’re feeling because for them it’s as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

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• I have a four year old and I’m telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn’t believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

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  Tags in Embarrassed, Moments

• 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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• But that we didn’t have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren’t sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

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  Tags in Industry, Opportunities

• 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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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Worry

• 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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• First of all when you’re a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that’s just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

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Nia Long (25)

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

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