“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
”It’s weird when people say, ‘You’re a Cuban actress’ or ‘You’re a Spanish actress.’ They put a thing in front of what you are, but I’m like, ‘I’m an actress.’ I’ll see what I can do, but don’t put me in a place that you don’t know yet. Don’t put a label on my work before you see it.“
LUPITA NYONG’O
2019 Breakthrough Prize at NASA Ames Research Center, California (November 4, 2018).
“Eliza had this quality of immediacy that Amma needed to have and she needs to be able to make me fall in love with her, outsmart her [Patricia Clarkson], and also carry this duplicity, which for a young actress is such a big calling, and she just nailed it in the audition. I was like – she left and we were all like [gasp].”
Amy Adams on Eliza Scanlen [Sharp Objects, 2018]
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