Felicity Jones Quotes

I think it’s absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It’s a very exciting time to be an actress.

My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included ‘Tremors’, ‘The Goonies’, and, of course, ‘Star Wars‘. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

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.

I’m more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Nothing beats an ‘Archers’ fan for their levels of devotion. I think it’s because it’s radio, and you obviously conjure up an image of the character that is so powerful.

I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I’m in different moods, I want to read different things.

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.

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It’s such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you’re being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character’s emotions.

I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I’m like, ‘life can be fun.’ You don’t have to overthink everything. I’ve found a way to be more at peace with things. I’m looking forward to turning 30.

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

In a way, ‘Like Crazy‘ keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It’s an instinctive process.

I love being able to change from big films to small films.

I’m happiest when I’m discussing a script and working with interesting people.

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.

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.

I was so passionate about wanting the role in ‘Like Crazy,’ I filmed myself in the shower because that’s where one of the scenes was set. It just felt instinctive. It was a close up! It would have been strange if I’d sent off a wide shot of myself. That’s not the kind of work I want to do!

I’m attracted to playing people who aren’t necessarily straightforward.

I hardly ever watch the news… I love reading newspapers, but I know they’re dying out.

I actually love doing comedy!

It’s funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it’s the dream, isn’t it? It’s the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

I’m very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself – and I think that comes from my mother.

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.

It’s nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you’re in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.

It can be frustrating when you’re put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, ‘Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.’ I’m sure people don’t say to Eddie Redmayne, ‘How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?’

I’ve heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that’s probably the best way a director should be. They’re open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it’s got to be that one person‘s vision. That’s what I think makes a film really stand out.

Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I’d rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like ‘The Hunger Games.’

You still slightly down that you’re ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That’s the territory of being an actor. It’s like anything that’s competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.

Of everything I have done, ‘The Archers’ always gets the most excitement; there’s a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

I love ‘Annie Hall‘; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She’s got real charisma.

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

I’ve never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for ‘Rogue One’ where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that’s part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I’ve done before.

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.

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record ‘The Archers’. It was pretty intense.

I was thinking ‘Love Story’, obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

Actors and directors work on things together. That’s how I like to work, anyway. I don’t want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

I’ve always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

When you’re a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.

Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There’s a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, ‘Oh, I wish I had done that differently.’

The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep’s or Kate Winslet’s. It’s just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

‘Great Expectations‘ has become one of my favorite books.

I’m obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don’t say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

I don’t think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn’t quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I’m feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them – simple but graphic.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it’s so important.

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.

I guess I’m a bit of a romantic.

When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, ‘Look, this isn’t working,’ and they’ll go, ‘I know it’s not working. What are we gonna do?’ And you go and try something else.

I don’t actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

When I come home, I am literally the most popular person with my friends‘ parents for doing ‘The Archers.’

I think we’re very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and I’ve always liked Kate Winslet and her work and respected her.

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.

I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word ‘nails’ on Tumblr and start looking.

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.

It’s nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I’d love to do more comedy. It’d just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I’m here, I can’t think of anything more different.

When you’re in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, ‘Why is there a huge camera in my face?’ But, 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.

I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

There’s such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it’s like putting on a play or short film.

I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

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.

My mother was in the kind of late-’60s, early-’70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, ‘You’re not going to be defined by how you look. It’s going to be about who you are and what you do.’

For everyone, ‘Star Wars’ has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.