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I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.

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Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

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I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

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You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

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