Rose Leslie Quotes

#1. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

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#2. I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that.

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#3. I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

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#4. I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

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#5. I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

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#6. Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

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#7. The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

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#8. When I left 'Downton Abbey,' it hadn't yet taken off and become the phenomenon that it is, to this day. That all happened after I left. But, it was fabulous to be a part of it and to be a part of the cast. We had an absolute ball!

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#9. I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.

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#10. Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

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#11. With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

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#12. I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

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#13. It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

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#14. I loved my experience on 'Downton Abbey.' We shot it in six months, and it was the first time I'd ever been on TV, and I was surrounded by my friends. It was a wonderful, wonderful time.

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#15. It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.

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#16. I remember loving 'Braveheart,' and I still do! It was one of those films my family had on video and we watched over and over again.

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#17. I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

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#18. There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

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#19. I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

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