Words matter. These are the best Angourie Rice Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.
I really like school. I like going to school, which sounds a bit stupid, but I do. And I love the social aspect of it: it keeps me grounded, and it’s nice to have that routine.
I really enjoy drawing, and I enjoy design, fashion design especially. If acting doesn’t work out, which I hope it does, I’d probably go into design.
A huge part of my identity is being a woman, and that’s really important for me, and that’s a big part of my self-expression, so I think it’s really interesting sort of exploring what it means if someone doesn’t have that.
I went to my first school dance on the set of ‘Spider-Man.’ The funny thing is, it wasn’t actually real. I didn’t choose my dress or my date or anything about it. I just showed up for work.
I don’t want to play the girlfriend who’s there because she’s the girlfriend. And. That’s. Her. Job. I want to play women and girls who are active and strong and who have a character arc and make decisions and have a rich background.
I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.
For me, it’s my work – I have a job, and that job happens to be with insanely talented actors. At this stage, it’s normal to me. But when I meet new people, I realise, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s actually really strange. I have a very unique hobby.’
I would like to trade places with my sister. I think that would be really interesting. She’s three years younger than me, and she’s a gymnast. She goes to gymnastics, like, every single day, and that’s a whole other world to me, and I think that would be very interesting.
I have my friends who like me because I’m me and not because I’m in films, and that’s really important to me. They tell me, ‘You look terrible; don’t wear that,’ or ‘That joke wasn’t funny,’ and that’s really important: they keep me grounded.
One of the things I do struggle with is being in the present.
The fantastic thing about ‘Jasper Jones’ is that although it’s set in 1969, the themes are still so topical. We’re still struggling with racism and sexism and domestic violence and abuse.
It’s tough to sort of balance free time and schoolwork and work in general and family time and hanging out with friends, but it is manageable if you have a good support team behind you, which I do.
I’ve done quite a few films that are based on books, and it’s always nerve-wracking because there’s an audience who has read and loved the book, and what if they see the movie and hate it?
Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to sit down and listen to another person’s experience and listen how they express themselves and want to be seen by others.
I remember seeing ‘The Bling Ring’ in cinemas and loved it – it was so cool. And ‘Marie Antoinette’ – I watched that when I was, like, nine or something. I thought it was the best thing ever.
A big way that I express myself is through what I wear and how I present myself. I think that’s an important part of the characters that I play.