Hayley Atwell Quotes

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

What do you hope girls take away from watching [Agent Carter]?
I would hope that young girls can see that they don't have to sacrifice their femininity to be taken seriously in the workplace. But also they don't have to rely on their physicality or their appearance; that it's just as important, if not a lot more so, to be able to use their intelligence, their wit, their humor and their warmth to be able to get where they want to and to achieve their goals in life.

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.