Vanessa Kirby Quotes
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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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I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.
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I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.
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I did The 'Acid Test' at the Royal Court, by Anya Reiss, who's the most wonderful, amazing female writer. She was only 19 when she wrote it. She wrote it about three girls in a flat on a Friday night, and that was magic because it was so rare to have three girls in your age group in a play. It just doesn't happen.
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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 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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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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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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You are what you think. I really believe that. And I don't think you ever stop doubting yourself.
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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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I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.
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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 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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Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
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I don't see the point of grumpy people.
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I've played a lot of untalented people.
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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 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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What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.
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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'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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Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.
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As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.
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Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.