Vanessa Kirby Quotes
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When you see yourself on a 40-ft. screen. you go, 'Oh My God! I look so weird!'
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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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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 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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Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.
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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 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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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 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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Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
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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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I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.
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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 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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What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.
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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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Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.
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I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.
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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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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.