Andrea Riseborough Quotes

Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with ... it feels like the best opportunity that's ever come your way, whether that's in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

I've worked with so few female directors.

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.

I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.

I think every work is hard in different ways.

Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.

There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.

I've always thrown like a girl.

I'm very pragmatic.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.

People think I'm totally crackers.

In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have to put an enormous amount of faith in the director. But you also have to decide you're so interested in the material, this director, his work, and his process, that you don't care about the outcome.

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.