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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her. Ruth Negga

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of – I don't know – moral center. Ruth Negga

I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc. Ruth Negga

Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories – it's all part of my toolbox as an actor. Ruth Negga

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living. Ruth Negga

What's really important is the people, first of all. I like working with people who are kind, above all else. I don't really want to work with someone who will manipulate me. The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, …

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I don't think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I thought it must be lovely to have an Oscar. But the more involved you are in this business, the more that pretence disappears, and you really get to see what you love about it, …

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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job. Ruth Negga

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections. Ruth Negga

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change. Ruth Negga