Jessica Barden Quotes

I mainly feel excited but also grateful to be recognised by Bafta. It makes me feel like a legit actress.

I’m friends with people that are in their 70s. I’m friends with people who are 17. So I don’t consciously do anything different because of an age.

Acting was definitely a comfortable place. It didn’t force me into adulthood because I was ready to be independent.

I can’t lie – I have one of those faces where you can tell. It’s expressive and lends itself to being cheeky. I always tell the truth even when I should probably tell a white lie.

I don’t want to have a big wedding. I don’t crave that ritual of dress fittings, party planning and all eyes being on you.

I’m a quite dramatic person.

Creating boundaries for yourself is healthy. A lot of panic attacks, in my experience, can be stopped by actually saying to somebody, ‘Sorry I can’t actually do this because I feel uncomfortable.’

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on ‘Game Of Thrones.’

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.

There’s a tendency to still show women as being one way or the other – you’re either soft and shy or you’re really ballsy and funny, but I think that we’re everything.

There isn’t a right or wrong way to be depressed, anxious, or struggle with PTSD. Mental health challenges manifest differently for different people, and it’s important that people see that on-screen.

I started working at a really young age, so I didn’t even go to traditional high school.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It’s a challenge, because you’re doing a mix of scenes and you’re making a person.

I definitely wanted to be a woman and be treated as an adult, I wasn’t interested in being young at all.

I’ve played a lot of teenagers and I think sometimes they tend to make them a bit too mushy, because you’re not actually connected to yourself at all really when you’re a teenager.

And if I have kids one day, I can tell them that I was famous on Instagram, which is really funny, and they will think that I’m really lame. Everything is temporary.

I was the last person to experience everything. I didn’t really waste time worrying about fitting in or going to parties, because I looked very young for my age and wouldn’t have fit in even if I tried.

We all went for roles as extras at my school because a lot of children‘s shows were filmed in Leeds near where I grew up. My Parents are Aliens was a big one we all did.

So many people’s parents separate and for my generation it is very normal. But I remember feeling as though nobody ever spoke about it.

I was always a show-off with my friends; we used to have interpretive dance nights to Christina Milian and Sean Paul where we’d film it.

I feel really happy like with ‘Derry Girls,’ I feel happy to be part of something that young people are like, that is dysfunctional and you feel awkward in relationships and you try to find someone that makes you feel comfortable.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

Every single job is fun, but I like it to be a mix of knowing what you’re going to do every day, with learning something every day.

I know lots of friends who grew up without fathers and it actually makes you stronger. You have more to prove, you have to protect yourself.

I have stage fright really badly.

I’m 25, but I look like I’m 16 so I don’t really don’t consider age personally.

I have a fear of people… Some days you just don’t really want the attention of everybody looking at you. And it makes you feel insecure.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

Part of my job is getting dressed up and having my picture taken and the best way of dealing with that is finding a way of enjoying it.

I’m really grateful for the opportunities I get. But I do spend a lot of time thinking about how lucky I am so I don’t become complacent about it.

Like everything, if you’re born in the center of something it’s super easy, but it’s hard to do anything different with your life if you come from somewhere that isn’t London.

So I would like my wedding day to be low-key. And maybe I would not wear a wedding dress but something chic and simple, like vintage Chanel.

I’m one of those people when I see a homeless person on the street, I want to know their story. There’s a reason they got there.

If you discover that a role isn’t complex, you can speak to somebody about it and they’ll help you push it when you’re on set.

You’ve got to support male stories and healthy male relationships and things. You can’t just be a woman that is only want to support female stories or a guy that’s only wanting to support guy stories. It needs to all mix again.

I like taking risks with things.

I just used to go to the same auditions with all these other kids I went to school with. I didn’t feel like I was really good at acting. I didn’t feel like I was a really talented person that needed to be doing this.

As much as it’s really important, obviously, as a woman in the industry to be choosing the stories which represent women, you also have to keep an eye on the male side.

Being an actress, I want to play people that are not like me or the characters I’ve previously played. It’s easier to get roles if you play a certain type of character but I don’t want to do that.

But as a kid you take it very personally when your parents divorce.