Jessie Buckley Quotes
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I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.
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Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.
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To hold on to what you believe is just and right.
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It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
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The archetype of male hero is so boring. And the pretty, boobed woman is so... boring.
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I've been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.
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Always good to shake it up and do something different.
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At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.
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The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.
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Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.
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I absolutely adore singing, and I hope I'll always be able to sing, but you can grow more and challenge yourself more as an actor.
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I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.
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We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.
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Tom Hardy is such a good egg. He's a total teddy bear. He loves his dogs and his kids. He's a true artist. But he's a lovely, naughty, funny man.
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I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.
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I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.
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Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a flame. There's a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.
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I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.
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When you get the opportunity to work with somebody like Jude Law, there is a fear. They've got lots of stuff under their belt.
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I had to be an adult very quickly and didn't have any friends.
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I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'
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I'm quite glad about having a few craggy edges to myself.
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I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't want anyone to hear me play. But then I'd do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright.
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I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.