Top 30 Juno Temple Quotes

I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only way to be in touch with your emotions.

I love the idea of playing women I think I’m going to learn from.

What’s exciting about watching a movie, when it’s finished, is you sometimes you don’t recognize yourself, and that’s when I’m really proud.

I’ve never been scared of snakes. I’m really, truly arachnophobic – I hate spiders – but snakes have never freaked me out. I think they’re really beautiful.

Watching something like ‘Orange is the New Black’ – the development of the characters is amazing. Or ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Mad Men’ – those shows went on for so long. You become so invested in those characters, and I think that’s a pretty magic thing.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I’m doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

I never want to sell my soul for something I don’t believe in. Because guess what? Somebody somewhere in the world would have believed in that part and should be playing it – who am I to not allow that person that opportunity?

It’s all about the director for me; we have to click. It’s a trust thing. I’ll say I’m ready to let down my walls. I’ll cry for you as long as you need. But you’re going to have to hug me afterwards.

You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I’ll stand by that until the day I die!

I take fancy dress very seriously. I mean incredibly seriously.

I’m a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

My mum sent me to an open audition for ‘Notes On A Scandal’ so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was ‘Atonement.’

I had this imaginary world where fairies were my friends. If you told six-year-old Juno that she’d one day play a Disney fairy, she’d totally freak out.

It’s so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

I think it’s so important when you’re playing a character that you can’t judge the person you’re playing at all. It’s a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he’s doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn’t on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

I love independent films. I love going to see them. I love being a part of them because it kind of feels like ‘all for one and one for all.’ It can be really challenging but also really rewarding because sometimes you have to do so much stuff in a day, but I like that challenge, and you make such amazing friends.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.

It’s important you don’t lose touch with reality because, well, reality’s the only thing you’ve got, really.

In TV, it’s so much more about the writers because they’re the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what’s up.

But, I think it’s great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That’s really fantastic!

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it’s got the same sort of music to talking.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don’t care is when I’m in character.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it’s so important for me to do things that I’m passionate about.

Twitter goes straight over my head, but I like the idea of posting pictures because they can say so much.

There’s such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life – different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.