Vanessa Kirby Quotes
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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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I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.
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I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.
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Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.
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I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.
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I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.
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Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
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I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.
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You are what you think. I really believe that. And I don't think you ever stop doubting yourself.
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I've played a lot of untalented people.
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My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.
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I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.
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I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.
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Some of my favourite characters have been people like Masha in 'Three Sisters' and Elena in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.
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I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.
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I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.
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What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.
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I don't see the point of grumpy people.
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Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.
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I hate the idea of massive fame. I think the scariest thing for an actor is when your name becomes bigger than your craft or what you can do.
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Growing up, the image I had of Princess Margaret was completely different. I knew that she was a slightly tragic figure, but I didn't know why. Now, I love her with my all my heart. She was such an amazing person, and getting to 'know' her better was an honor.
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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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I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.