Top 60 Lily James Quotes

You are what you’re portrayed as.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I’ve always felt like one.

It took me a while to warm to the ’20s costumes on ‘Downton.’ I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, ‘We’re equal to men!’

At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they’ll come true, but I didn’t do that.

I don’t like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

I naturally have a really small waist.

I want to be Ursula in ‘The Little Mermaid.’

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

I used to go to musicals every birthday – that was my birthday present. We’d go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw ‘Mamma Mia’ about five times.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it’s a balancing game.

I never thought I would say this, but I’m desperate to do an action film.

In anything, I always give my all. I’m not a good loser.

As cynical as I can be, there’s always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.

I’m dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it’s really cool how they’ve changed over the years – how the princesses have become more positive role models right up until ‘Frozen.’

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

I love clothes but it’s a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.

I love singing so much. As a kid, that was what I wanted to do.

Top athletes are like warriors.

I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

When people feel good, they look good.

The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

I don’t have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress – it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

I love putting on a red lip. I don’t do it so much for events – somehow, I don’t seem to get it right – but when I just go to the pub or to a restaurant or something, I just put a red lip on.

My dad lived on Sunset Boulevard for a couple of years as a waiter, and he said he’d do a different character every time somebody sat down, just to get some practice.

I live in dungarees, and I love denim – I wear denim shirts a lot.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

I thought it’d be interesting to play an off-centre character who doesn’t have to be pretty.

I have an amazing stylist; she’s called Rebecca Corbin Murray… I go around to her living room, and it’s sort of exploding with dresses, and we go through them all, and she’s so good at picking things she knows I’ll like, and we work together. She’s taught me absolutely everything; she’s brilliant.

I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took it back.

Diet Coke is the only way I get through filming because I get so tired.

I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.

I love London, but I love traveling, and I don’t think I’ll be here forever. Possibly, I’d like to move to New York and do a play in New York.

People talk a lot about, ‘You’re a Disney princess! You’re Cinderella!’ and this and that. But for me, it’s all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That’s the ‘Cinderella’ story for me.

It’s hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

I remember meeting the princesses at Disney World and getting their autographs.

I’m such a geek now with princesses. It’s pathetic.

The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.

I admire actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, who says what she thinks.

Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing – I just clung on.

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.

For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

Corsets are always hard to wear.

I think our sense as actors of what we’ve just done – whether or not it be in an audition – is usually really not connected to any truth. I’m always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was ‘Snow White.’ I loved all the Disney princess movies.

I think I feel most like a princess when I’m sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party – just when you’re full of life.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was ‘Just William.’ It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in ‘Cinderella,’ I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.

Ultimately, ‘Cinderella’ is the story of the underdog. You root for her in this fairytale; the girl who has nothing, deserves so much more, and gets it.

In regards to your love life, you’re just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you’ve never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you’re crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.

When I worked with Bill Nighy on ‘Wrath of the Titans,’ he said to me, ‘There’s one thing you can promise me, and that’s never, ever, ever read your reviews.’

It’s weird when you get roles that coincide with your life.

My mum thinks I’m amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

My mom passed down to me her old Levi’s denim jacket. When I left it on a plane, I was devastated. I’ve never been able to find anything with quite the same cool, faded look.

God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.

I really have been lucky because I’ve always had a very healthy attitude to my body.