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 dominate our fear and get rid of our fear, so we go towards it and have sex with it, basically. That's really sad.
Thandie NewtonIf I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.
Thandie NewtonI 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, and it felt so good.
Thandie NewtonIf we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
Thandie NewtonI use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
Thandie NewtonHumans are really interesting. We're so clever, what we do with our brain. How we manage to con ourselves into thinking all sorts of things is really fascinating. By the same token, if we could just convince ourselves of things that would gather us together and powerfully turn things around for the good, that would be awesome. It's doubtful because we're such a fear-based species.
Thandie Newton