Andrea Riseborough Quotes
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Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.
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When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.
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People think I'm totally crackers.
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Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
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I've always thrown like a girl.
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Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
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I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.
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Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
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I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.
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Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.
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Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.
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I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.
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Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.
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As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.
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I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
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People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
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As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting.
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Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.
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I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
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I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.
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I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.
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I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.
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There's always hope, and there's always despair.
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I think every work is hard in different ways.