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"“When I'm on set, I'm 100 percent comfortable, but at events and photo shoots, I'm beyond nervous.* https://fixquotes.com/actors/sydney-sweeney/"

"I really fell in love with MMA. It's a really cool skill and strength and power that I hold that many people, when they look at me, they're like, 'Yeah right,' and I'm like, 'Let's go to a ring, I'll fight you."

"If I wanted to take a six-month break, I don't have income to cover that. I don't have someone supporting me, I don't have anyone I can turn to, to pay my bills or call for help. They don't pay actors like they used to, and with streamers, you no longer get residuals. If I just acted, I wouldn't be able to afford my life in L.A. I take deals because I have to."

"I always believed that if you have a plan B, you're prepared to fail."

"I’ve shocked people by the choices that I make with my characters… There’s always people who see me as Cassie or see me as Olivia. They send me scripts that are just like that. It’s the ones I have to fight for that usually are the ones that I want that are different."

"I'm very proud of my work in Euphoria. I thought it was a great performance. But no one talks about it because I got naked."

"I do yoga and meditation. I'm a vegetarian and I've given up alcohol."

"My recurring dream, for many years now, is of a giant wave about to crash onto a beach where I am with a group of friends. I have premonitory dreams."

"[About Madonna] I disagree. Nor do I agree with the association of Madonna's name with the title of her LP Like a Virgin."

"Those who eliminate animal products from their diet no longer get sick. And then meat makes you go bald."

"It's better to be the one who leaves than the one who is left."

"Marquis de Sade: Justine"

"Lo dico per la prima volta: il problema fu la marijuana. Romina fumava quella robaccia anche quattro volte al giorno. E lo faceva da anni, ancor prima della scomparsa di Ylenia. Era un'altra donna. Fumava ed era allegra. Finito l'effetto, si intristiva e piangeva. Era irriconoscibile. Non esprimeva più quell'attaccamento alle cose, la passione per la vita, per quello che avevamo vissuto e costruito quegli anni. Fu l'inizio della fine."

"I discovered Buddhism during my mother's illness, when I moved to the United States to care for her. It's hard to see a parent die: Buddhism was my reward, all my questions were answered. I eradicated my anger, I realized that it is a poison that I must no longer swallow. Before, I used to go to ashrams but I didn't feel like I belonged anywhere. I didn't renounce anything, Buddhism doesn't ask you to do that: when I was little and preparing for my Confirmation, I thought about becoming a nun."

"My hair has always been my strong point, everyone wondered who took care of it: instead, I trimmed it myself with scissors, on new moon nights, so that it would grow back stronger and faster."

"I could have had a career in cinema. It was difficult to reinvent myself as a singer. I have a weak voice. I can swing, dance, I'm a show woman, but I had to overcome my extreme shyness. My legs trembled in front of 80,000 people."

"I grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt so far away from me. So to be here standing in this room today is really incredible. I also just want to again recognize and honor the sex worker community. I will continue to support and be an ally. I also just want to recognize the thoughtful, intelligent, beautiful, breathtaking work of my fellow nominees. I’m honored to be recognized alongside all of you. This is a dream come true."

"Any uncomfortability or pain or difficulty I felt is temporary because that’s just how it is. I welcome those feelings because it means it’s something real that I’m able to show. The film will be forever —any sadness or pain I feel is temporary, and it goes away. And I’m lucky. This is my dream job."

"The whole film, my character has been covering up her emotions with a hardness, not letting anybody see her crack, so I found myself also feeling like that during filming. I was never emotional, and me as Mikey, I’m a very emotional person. For the last scene, I was almost shaking going into the car because I didn’t know what that would feel like—because I had been feeling the same way as my character for so long."

"Now that I’m growing older, I find that my source of power comes from my identity and ethnicity"

"Whenever Black women have a point, they’re characterized as Angry Black Women, and therefore the thing they’re talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something."

"I thought a lot about the concept of cultural dysphoria, and how that can shape how people relate to the world,"

"Social media really shaped me and my generation and our ability to organize or express our thoughts"

"feel really disheartened by the fact that there’s no infrastructure legislation to control and mitigate the amount of manipulation that is occurring toward the public by these private organizations and corporations who just want to make money off us and control our thoughts."

"A lot of my adolescence was defined by being here. I feel like the first time I really experienced freedom and autonomy was here, so I think I probably fell in love with New York and knew it was the place I wanted to live when I was 15 or 16. Then I had a series of unsuccessful attempts to move here that were thwarted by different things"

"I have always had and continue to have a lot of disillusionment around social media, particularly now"

"I think that as a black girl you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn’t accept your hair or your skin tone or your natural features, or that you shouldn’t have a voice, or that you aren’t smart"

"I feel like the only way to fight that is to just be yourself on the most genuine level and to connect with other black girls who are awakening and realizing that they’ve been trying to conform"

"I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren’t at a place yet where they are able to learn"

"I feel like when I was younger—even though I may not have been conscious [of it]—I fought my hair and I fought who I was…to try to conform, or shy away from my Blackness"

"I think already, at age 12, I was like, Yeah, people are racist. Why are y’all surprised?"

"It wasn’t until I started living in other places that I realized that growing up with the backdrop of a mountainscape is not everyone’s experience"

"I don’t think there’s ever been a moment where I’ve thought social media is not for me, because I’m obsessed with social media. I have three meme accounts!"

"when people come to me and say, “I’m more comfortable in my identity because of you,” or “I feel like you’ve given me a voice,” that’s the most powerful thing ever."

"I think as a queer person, kind of everything I do in the public sphere is drag in some capacity"

"our collective relationship to the truth has become far more chaotic.”"

"Now you can go on Instagram and you can see a girl who looks like you who is killing the game and expressing herself. Just being able to see that is so affirming"

"I don’t particularly like putting forward an image of myself that’s too true to reality"

"Being an actor is one of the few professions where, as an adult, you get to play!"

"We have a unique voice because we grow up with the ability to empathize. We constantly have to do the work of placing ourselves in other people’s shoes"

"But I’m not tired of talking about hair in the sense of it being an empowering thing. I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn’t comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state."

"I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person"

"I’m not sure if social-media activism serves the cause in the long term"

"Though the intentions are generally excellent with respect to giving a voice to those who were too long silenced, the movements that came before us, in the past, perhaps had more weight"

"I noticed that whenever I was trying to talk about social justice and how Black women are framed in the media, quite ironically, I would be framed in a certain way that would demonize me and take away the value of my point"

"you might say that culture has become more inclusive, that inequalities and prejudice seem to be slowly retreating, and that things which were once considered normal and acceptable are now deemed to be inappropriate"

"When I reflect on it, I don’t remember being very upset about it. I remember feeling that I don’t give a flying f**k what these racist people think of me. I think bigots don’t really bother me"

"The line between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange is always going to be blurry"

"Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me."

"I learned I couldn’t shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful."