Top 70 Felicity Jones Quotes

I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I’m in different moods, I want to read different things.

I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it’s really liberating. I recommend it. It’s just very easy. I don’t have to brush it.

I’m more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

There’s so much that goes into a film that I feel like it’s a bit arrogant to say, ‘Oh, I never watch my own movies.’ Well, it’s not just you. There’s a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.

In a way, ‘Like Crazy’ keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

There’s such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it’s like putting on a play or short film.

I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

You still slightly down that you’re ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That’s the territory of being an actor. It’s like anything that’s competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.

I love going swimming. I spent a lot of time in North London in summer going to Hampstead Heath and swimming in the ponds there. It’s so beautiful; we’re so lucky to have that in London.

People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, ‘Well, of course!’

I’m very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself – and I think that comes from my mother.

I would describe my look as ‘ladylike rock chick.’

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

I always love listening to Bob Dylan. ‘Blood on the Tracks’ is one of my favorite albums.

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It’s such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you’re being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character’s emotions.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

I’m obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don’t say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

London is my home. I miss my family so much; it’s hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.

Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I’d rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

When you’re a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.

I’ve heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that’s probably the best way a director should be. They’re open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it’s got to be that one person’s vision. That’s what I think makes a film really stand out.

Actors and directors work on things together. That’s how I like to work, anyway. I don’t want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

I’m a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can’t do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I’ll take the easy route.

I actually studied literature at university, so I’m much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

I hardly ever watch the news… I love reading newspapers, but I know they’re dying out.

I think that when something happens when you’re growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren’t as straightforward.

If you’re in a film that you’re proud of and you care about, then you’re always happy to talk about it.

It’s nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you’re in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

I’m attracted to playing people who aren’t necessarily straightforward.

I love ‘Annie Hall’; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She’s got real charisma.

I like to jump into different worlds. I’m attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. Now I’ve been doing it for so many years, I must rather enjoy it.

I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories – that’s why I keep making romantic movies.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It’s difficult, because there’s a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There’s a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, ‘Oh, I wish I had done that differently.’

It’s funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it’s the dream, isn’t it? It’s the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.

When you’re a young actor, there’s this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I’d prefer to take my time.

I feel like I personally have been lucky.

It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It’s an instinctive process.

Nothing beats an ‘Archers’ fan for their levels of devotion. I think it’s because it’s radio, and you obviously conjure up an image of the character that is so powerful.

You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record ‘The Archers’. It was pretty intense.

It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

I think human nature is eternal and constant.

My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what’s going to happen in a day!

When I was 11 years old, I was a member of ‘Press Pack,’ which was a thing that would come out in ‘The Sunday Times’ in England. You’d write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying ‘Official Press.’ I was really excited about my badge.

I think that my parents’ divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don’t know what’s going to happen in the future.

I think you’re attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it’s more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.

I’m interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it’s difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I’m learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

I’d studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

I don’t like when I look too cluttered.

If it’s something quite low-key then I’ll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it’s good to have a makeup artist because they know what they’re doing.

I don’t have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.

You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They’re not that frequent; you’ll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you’re lucky.

I don’t think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I’m doing. That’s what every single woman around the world wants. We want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

It can be frustrating when you’re put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, ‘Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.’ I’m sure people don’t say to Eddie Redmayne, ‘How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?’