Top 46 Felicity Jones Quotes
#2. You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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#3. I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.
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#4. I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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#5. Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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#6. Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.
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#7. I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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#8. A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.
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#9. I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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#10. You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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#11. The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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#12. I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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#13. I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
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#14. I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.
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#15. I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.
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#16. If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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#17. Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.
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#18. I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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#19. I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.
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#20. I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.
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#21. I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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#22. There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.
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#23. I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.
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#24. There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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#25. I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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#26. I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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#27. When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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#28. My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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#29. I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.
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#30. As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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#32. Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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#33. I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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#35. I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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#36. Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.
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#37. My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.
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#38. I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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#39. But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'
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#40. It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.
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#41. I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.
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#42. I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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#43. The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.
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#44. It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.
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#45. I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!
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#46. When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
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