Rebecca Hall Quotes

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

A good piece of art raises questions.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

No family is sane, is it?

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Of course, any job is scary, but you tackle the challenges head on and hope for the best.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it to taking long walks, but sometimes you can see the character immediately. A lot of it is instinctive.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.