Words matter. These are the best Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Once I set my mind towards something, it’s going to happen. By hook or by crook.
I got scouted when I was 16, almost 17, and it was something that had never entered my thoughts. I never thought I could be a model. I was such a tomboy growing up, and I’ve never really been into makeup or anything like that, so it was really surprising, but I definitely saw it as an in for acting.
I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I’m not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn’t want to live in a world without magic.
‘The Witch’ is feminist.
I just want to see what life’s going to throw my way. So far, it’s been very unexpected. I’m kinda on a roller coaster and want to enjoy that.
I don’t know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I’ve done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.
Modeling had never entered my consciousness. I was always like, ‘I’m going to act.’ But I thought, ‘If this can help me with that, great.’
I got scouted for modeling, and it was really scary – I was walking my dog wearing heels for the first time ever because I had a party to go to the day after, and I wanted to practice, and this black car kind of started following me, so I, being dramatic, picked up the dog and started to run.
I’m a surprisingly good rapper.
I love what I do so much, and I have a very acute understanding of how I work as a person, so if I’m afraid, I shut down and can’t do anything. If I’m overwhelmed, I shut down and can’t do anything.
I’ve been quite lucky in that the roles that I’ve been able to play are all kind of outsiders.
Even the strongest bonds, flesh and blood, they can just evaporate in a second given the right conditions.
I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can’t actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.
I don’t really feel like I belong anywhere, which makes me belong everywhere.
I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don’t fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I’ve always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.
I’d love to work with the Coen brothers. And Steven Spielberg. ‘E.T.’ was big for me.
I don’t lie very well!
I just want to work with wonderful people.
I can’t do something that I would not throw myself under a bus for.
I’ve been quite lucky in that the roles that I’ve been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there’s this sense of displacement – I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.
I can’t just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.
Movies were my first love.
I’d go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.
To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it’s mine. We belong to each other, and I feel a fierce need to tell that story, and it just so happens that a lot of these characters have been residing in pretty dark worlds.
Acting is really a give-and-take; it’s a dance.
