Top 30 Alice Eve Quotes

China’s a big tea culture.

It’s no secret that beauty starts with water. It’s just a basic thing – you look better if you drink loads of water. When I’m working, that’s definitely the main thing I do.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

I think I’m probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I’m pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don’t make many films about the world of a poet.

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.

Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.

I’m an actress, so I hope I’m good at it.

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I’d have gone if he hadn’t. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

Both my parents are actors.

I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents’ house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.

I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never – death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It’s so clearly placed there for you with divorce.

In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character’s face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can’t do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you can’t get anywhere else because the audience is right there.

I support equal rights and equal dignity for all.

If I feel vulnerable, I get angry.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we’re incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I’m not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn’t it?

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

You go on Instagram, and it’s just not a real reflection of what people do and how much pain people are in every day.

I can’t play a 65-year-old grandfather, as much as I’d like to.

I really don’t mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don’t need the approval of people. I don’t need people to think I’m intelligent. And I’m not that intelligent.

Theater’s wonderful because it’s visceral, and it’s happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.

I can’t say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.

My dad’s always been a famous actor, so I’ve grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life – I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

I think we really need a government that tells us what to do.

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I’ve got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it’s not normal at all.

I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner.

I wish that I wasn’t such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.