Vanessa Kirby Quotes

I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.

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• I just love people. I love them a lot.

  

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  • People

• It's quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.

  

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  • Pain

• I love the idea of being an Aries.

  

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• I was always bossing my sister around.

  

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  • Sister

• The thing I really know is that I'm not a model. I'm an actress.

  

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  • Model

• You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

  

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  • Good
  • Women

• I've been really lucky to work with a lot of theater directors in the film, like Stephen Daldry on 'The Crown' and Richard Eyre on 'The Dresser.'

  

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  • Work

• I've always been pretty indifferent towards the royal family. I went on a school trip once to Buckingham Palace, and all I can remember is that it was really boring.

  

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  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?

  

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  • School
  • Why
  • Girl

• My hair has been so wrecked over the years by various things.

  

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  • Hair

• I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.

  

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  • Today
  • Focus

• I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

  

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  • School
  • Bad
  • Drama

• My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once a week, and I make a huge lasagne.

  

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  • Friends
  • Cooking

• I think my natural home was always the stage.

  

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  • Home

• We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.

  

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  • Live
  • Reality

• I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.

  

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  • Doubt

• Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov... they're masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.

  

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  • Writing

• So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'

  

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  • Up
  • She
  • Sexy

• I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

  

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  • Family
  • Psychology

• When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

  

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  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Acting is a very weird job. But if you know you're an actor, you just have to do it. You can't do anything else.

  

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  • Job
  • Weird

• You are what you think. I really believe that. And I don't think you ever stop doubting yourself.

  

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  • Believe
  • Stop

• My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.

  

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  • People
  • Why
  • Annoying

• I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Women