Andrea Riseborough Quotes
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Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy.
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I am quite odd-looking in real life.
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I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
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I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.
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There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.
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I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.
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I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
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Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.
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Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.
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I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.
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Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with... it feels like the best opportunity that's ever come your way, whether that's in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.
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I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'
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When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
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I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.
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When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself.
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We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
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Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
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I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.
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David Suchet's Poirot was very charming, and, when I'm away in the U.S., those series remind me of being in Britain and being British on a Sunday night.
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I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.
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I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.
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We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
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Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
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I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.