Words matter. These are the best Tuppence Middleton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.
I would love to work into my eighties. I don’t want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.
It wasn’t conscious, but I’m glad I’ve had a slow and steady career path. I wanted to develop my style, and I wanted to be the one making the decisions. Sometimes, when you become a success quickly, those decisions are out of your control.
I’ve been told so many times that I should go to the gym to get my anxiety and frustration out. But it just makes me feel pure, concentrated dread.
I think I would’ve been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it’s all about longevity.
It’s sad that so many people feel they need to alter their image. I think there is something really beautiful about ageing naturally.
My grandma used to call my mother ‘Tuppence’ as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.
Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.
After doing ‘War and Peace,’ I suddenly got lots of seductress roles. It’s easy to put people into a category after you’ve seen them in one thing that you feel fits with them. But I’m trying to make a conscious decision to do different things.
You want a career. You don’t want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.
I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy’s writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really modern.
I’d love to have a room full of taxidermy. I’d be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don’t know whether he would end up looking like himself. I’d be really sad if he looked strange.
I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.
Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.
I love film, but it’s funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.
I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I’d just go up to my room and hang out by myself. I wouldn’t really have friends over or go to see friends much.
I don’t think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It’s actually a disadvantage because that’s not where all the interesting parts lie.
