Top 25 Tamsin Egerton Quotes

Kicks are my forte. I’ve got strong legs and high kicks. And I’ve got very good reach, obviously.

I’m a complete junky for lotions and potions! I love SkinCeuticles Hydrating B5 Gel; it’s like a serum and I put it on my face, and immediately I can feel it. I put my moisturiser on top of that, and I just know that it’s going in more. I can feel it working, and I love it.

I think if you have a good night’s sleep, you can take on the world.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I’ve turned down a couple already.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

I’m a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.

I love jewellery, but it’s something I go through stages with. I have my go-to pieces that I will bring out and wear for weeks at a time.

I’m not interested in serial dating; I’d honestly rather be single.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn’t gain too much weight.

I love dressing up for events; to me it’s almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

Kids hate anyone who is different.

I’m not a flying fan. I can’t bear it.

I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I’d spend my whole life lost.

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there’s such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I’m just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman’s lunch.

I don’t know what it is about me, but I don’t think of myself as sexy; I never have.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they’re wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum’s blonde, my sister’s platinum blonde. I thought, ‘When I grow up, that’s what I’m going to look like.’

Jane Austen’s characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they’re always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, ‘You’ve got everything going for you right now’, and I say, ‘Oh yes, but!’ Which is not a good way to be.

I’m a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

I’m trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That’d be putting too much pressure on myself. I’d go crazy if I thought like that.

I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.