Lily James Quotes

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

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

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.

I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think I'm good at it. I did it all. I was really into the routines and the choreography. I used to dance when I was younger, and so I think that came in handy.

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.'

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

You know that scene in 'Runaway Bride' when Julia Roberts puts on the amazing wedding dress and looks at herself in the mirror and goes, 'Swish, swish'? I loved that moment so much when I was a little girl.

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

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

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

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

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

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

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

I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it's natural to be a good person, and kind, but I'm learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days.

I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.

To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.

I think that period dramas just need zombies.

I think it's so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin - I don't get the thin, thin thing at all.

I saw this cool interview with Amy Adams from when she did 'Enchanted' and played a princess, and when kids came up to her with no make-up and ripped jeans on, she said, 'I'm off duty. I'm an off-duty princess', and I thought that was quite sweet.

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.'

I naturally have a really small waist.

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

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.

I want to be Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid.'

Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing ... and I just never really stopped.

I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people.

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

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

When people feel good, they look good.

I'm a healthy girl.

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

Sadly, I've never met Princess Kate.

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

There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.

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.

Any kid in the world can draw from strengths within - we all have the potential with that.

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.

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.

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

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.

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.

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!'

The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.

The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.

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

I don't do anything with my brows.

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 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.

You are what you're portrayed as.

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

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.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.

Top athletes are like warriors.

I'm a real hoarder.

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.

No one looks twice at me when they're around, and 'Cinderella' has made no difference. And I know that isn't going to change.

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 can only show what I have received from the characters. That's what's scary because you're never going to be everyone's taste and you don't want to let people down. But, I can only do what I can do.

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

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

I played Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I remember thinking it's incredible to see all the actresses in the past that've played her. It's quite strengthening. You feel a part of the family of actresses going through and giving something of themselves to the role.