Gemma Arterton Quotes

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

I probably should get a bit more star-struck but I never do.

The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them ... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

I'm kind of a chatty person and the props guys would have to handcuff me and tie me up and sometimes I'd just be chatting and they'd just pop it back in ... like: "OK now, shut up!"

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!

I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.

I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way ...

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

I was approached by Avon which took me by surprise, cause I thought "why me?" I thought it would be Olga, but they wanted me to be the face of their fragrance and since filming Bond I have recorded an ad that looks great and obviously the stills. It's brilliant because I never thought I would get to do anything like that and it is a lovely opportunity.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I was born with lots of deformities.

I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set ... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.

My mom used to sell Avon when my mom was a kid for about three years, and so it was like the first make up I saw. And when I first found out about makeup it was Avon makeup and I remember putting my mom's red lipstick on my cheeks and thinking that is where it went, and that was Avon. So it's weird how your life turns out and how things come round, and it is brilliant.

I was quite naughty at school.

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.