Top 55 Rebecca Hall Quotes

I don’t think that theater is the higher medium, that it’s better than film.

I grew up watching his movies; I know everyone did, but I really feel that a lot of my formative years were informed by Woody Allen films.

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it’s like to feel like you’re not accepted, and you’re different, and somehow you’re weird.

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

Yes, I’m a complete itinerant. I keep making attempts not to be, but then circumstances make me uproot and go somewhere else again. It’s not the worst thing in the world at all; I love it. In fact, I’m probably horribly addicted to it.

I’ve always had horrible Valentine’s Days.

I’ve been listening to ‘Chapo Trap House’ – they’re quite radical. Every time I listen to it, my brain feels opened up.

I don’t think that anyone can really understand anything until it’s understood on a cellular, emotional level.

I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I’m not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you’ll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that’s been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

If I could be a musician, I’d do it. I love singing.

No family is sane, is it?

I always look for contradiction in a character.

I don’t want to constantly be making sacrifices. It feels like it’s really difficult for the films I dream about making to turn up.

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things – they’re repellent and lovable. They’re not likable, but they’re lovable. I think Christine is one of those characters.

I’ve played an awful lot of repressed people.

At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people’s opinions. I think that’s helpful.

One of the great things about the ‘Iron Man’ franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don’t necessarily do action movies. Before ‘Iron Man’ you didn’t associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There’s an emphasis on repartee and wit.

Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.

I don’t know how you make a living without a few personal compromises.

You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you’re quite sure what it’s revealing, and then you perform it.

Your principal motive on a movie set is to get the film made, but on a Woody Allen set, there’s an ulterior thing that goes on, which is, ‘Did you have a conversation with Woody? How friendly have you been with him? Am I liked by him?’

I really think that ‘Christine’ is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.

Since ‘Christine’ started screening, I’m overwhelmed by the response from women and men – that it’s so rare to see something like this. We’re just not given the opportunity so much.

I don’t have regular TV; I have Apple TV, so I pick what I watch, which is perhaps not a good thing. I read all the big publications and also listen to a lot of podcasts.

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering – but they can’t be ugly. I think there’s so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won’t sell.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It’s where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don’t feel like a tourist or anything.

We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

This is how much of a music geek I am: if I have a day with nothing to do, one of my favourite things is to just sit at my computer and make playlists of pretty much anything.

You either are a good director or you’re not.

My friends have noticed that if I suddenly go through a couple of months’ unemployment, there seems to be a correlation that I don’t ever tend to wear the same outfit twice. There will be such strange combinations of clothes because I’m probably a bit creatively stifled, so it’s coming out in my wardrobe.

I thought there was something intrinsically fascinating about people who communicate for a living and are incapable of communicating in their personal lives.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As someone who works and travels as much, you could feel… A bit rootless?

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought them to that point, whether it’s a mental health issue or otherwise.

‘Twin Peaks’ is my favorite American TV show.

There’s always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

My mum’s American. She’s from Detroit.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

When you work with filmmakers, and it’s their first film, there’s an exuberance and optimism, which is quite… There’s no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I’d lose my mind.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there’s nothing feminist about that.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

It’s so great that women are being allowed to be heroes in big things.

It’s one thing to think about something, but it’s another thing to actually feel it.

I’m a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

For better or worse, I don’t necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I’m not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I’m a very private person. I barely tell my friends what’s going on half the time, so the idea that I should then talk to the world about what is going on seems anathema to me. People can say what they want. I’m not going to change anyone’s mind.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there’s no experience that doesn’t make you a better actor.

There’s so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the ‘Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn’t like me…’

I don’t think I can boast about him. ‘Hey, my dad is a British institution; he’s done all these incredible things and I’m really proud of him.’ There is a certain baggage that comes with that in England.

It’s so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.

We can’t constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.