Top 35 Jessie Buckley Quotes

I like feeling out of my depth.

I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.

Some songs just resonate with you.

I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, ‘Thank God it’s not just me!’

Always good to shake it up and do something different.

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I’m always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.

I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I’d wake up at six to practice piano because I didn’t want anyone to hear me play. But then I’d do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright.

I’m quite glad about having a few craggy edges to myself.

‘War and Peace’ is about relationships: family relationships, loving relationships, relationships at war… it’s a really young story as well.

I can’t help who I fall in love with.

The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare’s heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

I love the flaws and foibles of people – I’m much more interested in that than perfections.

When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.

We’ve all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, ‘I’m really grateful that happened because I’m a stronger person.’

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

With regards to pressure, you can’t be too conscious of it.

We have beastly qualities within us. If we’re put into certain circumstances, and the walls around us come in tighter and tighter, we all could maybe do dangerous things.

I feel really lucky to have had ‘War and Peace’ as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great’s palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can’t believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

I remember hearing that when Judi Dench was starting out at the Old Vic, she used to stand by the side of the stage watching the actors around her, and I can see why: That is where you really learn!

I just know that making ‘Beast’ was an amazing experience. It was my first feature, it was the director’s first feature, and every day, you’re just trying to do good work and learn.

I’d had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.

You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn’t really know: an inner fighter in me.

To hold on to what you believe is just and right.

When you’re surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that’s got to be good for you.

Because I’ve got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.

I think I’d make a good James Bond… I’m joking.

Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.

I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what’s going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.

I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.