Words matter. These are the best Sally Hawkins Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
I’m quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You’re laughing one minute and you’re crying the next and that’s just life for me, and that is what people are like.
I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don’t really know who you are yet.
You can’t be a woman and not be a feminist, I don’t think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
You think that adulthood will hit and you’ll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn’t happen, ever, does it?
You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.
It’s different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you’re just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you’ve got to think: ‘OK, I’m just going to have to leap now.’
I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they’ve become, whether they’re the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after ‘All or Nothing,’ it took some getting used to – what do you mean there’s a script?!?’ That kind of thing.
I don’t wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!
The one thing that’s going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
Being in nature is very important to me. I’m not a glamour puss.
I grew up with ‘Jane Eyre,’ reading it at school, and it’s one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it’s the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don’t know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn’t work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it’s why I always worry when I’m doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there’s an audience at the end of the day.
I’m not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that’s great, it also imposes certain pressures.
