I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own,…

- Thandie Newton

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

- Thandie Newton

Fear is just part of our DNA and our make-up. By definition, if we've had to be looked after for two years, it means we can't do it on our own and we…

- Thandie Newton

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

- Thandie Newton

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

- Thandie Newton

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from …

- Thandie Newton

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's d…

- Thandie Newton

Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear. We want to try to d…

- Thandie Newton

Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure…

- Thandie Newton