Top 36 Andrea Riseborough Quotes
#2. When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
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#3. 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.
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#4. You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.
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#8. I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.
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#9. Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
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#10. Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good.
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#11. Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
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#12. I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
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#14. Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.
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#15. There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.
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#16. Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.
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#20. Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
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#21. Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.
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#23. When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#27. I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.
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#28. I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
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#29. I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
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#30. People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
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#32. I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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