Actress Quotes

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

No family is sane, is it?

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.