Talulah Riley Quotes

#1. I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

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#2. I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

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#3. Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

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#4. I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

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#5. I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

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#6. As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

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#7. Men are visual creatures.

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#8. There's a real power in heels and a good dress.

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#9. I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

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#10. 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

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#11. The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

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#12. Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

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#13. I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

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#14. My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

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#15. Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

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#16. I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

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#17. I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

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#18. Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

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#19. I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

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#20. Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

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#21. I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

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