Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Wunmi Mosaku
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Nigerian actress Wunmi Mosaku.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Christine Bottomley and Navin Chowdhry were really fun to work with.
I think, for me, just trying to be the 'non-threatening black woman,' constantly being, like, super-bubbly! And relatable! It takes a lot of energy! The energy you have to put into playing into the system of white supremacy, so that you can be just given a chance.
The taste of guava is my first memory. I remember somebody picking it from the tree and throwing it down to me.
I definitely think things are changing... I thought I would never be cast on network TV in America and here I am, cast on network TV - and not skinny!
I feel middle-class, but my family had to start from scratch. There was no inheritance from a great-aunt. It feels like a slog.
I don't know what can be done about knife crime, gang culture and people carrying weapons because it's a world I don't know about, but I hope that people decide to disarm and walk away from conflict.
The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult for us - the patriarchy, the racism.
I feel so British, but people would look at me and see a very African woman - the way I cook is very Nigerian, the way I dress I guess is quite Nigerian.
My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.
I come from a very matriarchal family and it's important to me that women are protected and saved and educated and loved and valued.
I don't think revenge is necessarily a good emotion to explore, personally.
Racism hasn't been an everyday thing in my life, overt racism. There is obviously structural differences, but hate? I've not really had that.
I would say my first big break would've been 'Moses Jones.' That was the first time I had a lead.
When you get to a place where a person is so angry that they can do anything - it's a dark dark place.
I Googled every actor from my favorite film 'Annie.' Albert Finney was also from Manchester and he went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - so I auditioned there, too.
I come from an educated family, but we were poor.
I go into every audition and I come out and I say, 'I did my best.'
I'm always playing someone grumpy or sad or grieving or downtrodden or stoic. As people get to know me within the industry, they know it's completely the opposite of what I'm like because I am a hyperactive, energetic ball.
So, I was a fan of 'Luther' from the first reading of the script and watching the first series. I think the actors in it are just brilliant, and I had never seen a black lead in the U.K. for so many years. That was quite a shocking moment for me.
I've realized that I am very rarely honest. Outside of my family, I am very rarely honest when I step outside of the door.
Some people think that gender equality is the biggest issue on the table, and to me, that's a privilege to even think that that's the biggest issue, because I am subject to much more inequality.
I would die to get a part in 'Glee' and sing a song.
When I get nervous my energy gets really still, and I think people think that's me. Everything gets really still, and my voice gets a little bit lower and there is a little croak in there - sometimes you can hear it when I'm really nervous on camera.
I actually sewed my own wedding dress and I sewed my flower girl dresses.
I've realized I have not been completely honest with what I need and what I want and how I've been treated, and I haven't necessarily stood up for myself. I've not always stood completely in my power and spoken the truth.
I grew up on an estate in Manchester and people I've known from school have died in gang trouble and I always thought, if I'd been on a different estate at a different time, it could have been me.
I don't think I've ever sought revenge, actually.
The scary thing is that I sometimes think, 'Oh, I've won a Bafta. This could be the top of the precipice.'
In my head, racism was an issue that needed to be fixed by the racists. Like you needed to convince that person one at a time rather than a systemic thing that needs a whole group effort.
Me and Hermione Norris are now best friends.
I grew up on a council estate.
I feel like I have a very typical west African physique, and that is part of my blackness!
Sci-fi and horror feel so relevant to me as a woman.
The day after Brexit I had a moment when someone said, 'Don't you want to go back to your own country?' I wasn't 100 per cent sure if he was thinking he was being kind? I was like, 'Um... this is my home, thank you.'
I honestly never wanted to come to America. It wasn't part of my goal as an actor.
But there are times, as an actor, where you are like, 'Although I am really sad that I did not get this, I am really, really excited to watch it and just be a spectator.'
If I was to go around as a white woman, a white man, an Asian woman, an Asian man... the world would just respond to you so differently because of your outward form, right?
I think sci-fi and horror are a perfect vehicle for exploring racism and injustice, the horrors of that. They are real; they are actual; they are tangible. They are also metaphorical and invisible.
When I step out of my front door, I have to paint on a bright, big smile to make sure people treat me kindly rather than with suspicion, or assume that I'm going to be aggressive.
You know, I had never heard of the Tulsa Riots - and I think something like 42 percent of Americans hadn't - until 'Watchmen' on HBO. And that's just crazy. I really saw how history is manipulated.
There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into the village, then they'll burn it down just to feel its warmth.'
The beauty with U.K. productions is that, most of the time, you get all of the scripts when you audition for them.
I have truly never been honest outside of the home in regards to racism and inequality and what I've been subject to.
I read a script that's presented to me, and if I love the story and the role, I audition for the part, which is pretty much how I approach it.
Gender inequality is a global issue that affects everyone.
I think the saddest thing is how people take on guilt and blame that isn't theirs or doesn't belong to them, and how hard it is to forgive yourself.
I'm healthy, but I'm not thin.
I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I'm like, 'I'm going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!'
Until 'Lovecraft Country' feels like a show where people go, 'Is that how the world used to be?' we do need to talk about it and make art about it, because sadly, it's not history yet.
I feel like I present the way I need to present in order to survive and feel like I can navigate.
I love myself, I love my skin, and I love my history. I'm grateful for who I am, grateful for the people who made me, my ancestors, and I wouldn't change a thing.
I dropped chemistry because there was a cute boy, and I figured out if I dropped chemistry, I would be in his drama class.
I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.
My mum was very supportive, and I don't really understand why when I think of her humble beginnings. She grew up in one room with my grandma, my grand-dad and her siblings and a fire-pit outside to cook on. Now she's a homeowner in Manchester and has a business.
If we want the world to change, we can change it. But in order to change it, the world collectively has to do better.
The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by racism, by white supremacy, by the patriarchy - how can you not feel empathy?
I censor myself all the time.
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one's body. And then you get to a place where you start to love yourself, accept yourself, celebrate and honor yourself.
I've always been quite scared about talking about race. You don't wanna rock the boat because you want to keep working.
I was always treated older than I am when I was a kid, so I had to be like, 'No, I'm sweet,' and this has continued into adulthood because of the way society portrays Black women.
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