Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

United Kingdom, Actress
September 14, 1989

Jessica Rose Brown Findlay is an English actress, most widely known for her role as Lady Sybil Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey, and for her role as Emelia Conan Doyle in the 2011 British comedy-drama feature film Albatross.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Money
- Attitude
- Jobs
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Serious
- Ballet
- Dancer

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Mind
- Shock
- Including
I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- People
- Obsessed
And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Strange
- Realizing
- Lovely
What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.

Jessica Brown Findlay
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Acting
- Emotion
- Adore
At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Thinking
- Knows

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Thinking
- Old