“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.
