Phoebe Fox Quotes

I have quite a dry sense of humour. It comes out when I’m feeling nervous.

My first play was ‘A Month in the Country‘ at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

I would love to see an adaptation of ‘Less’ by Andrew Sean Greer. It has all the things I want in a film; love, travel, humour.

I admire anyone who takes risks, especially in a creative sense, and who doesn’t play it safe. Those are the people who keep things moving forward.

I never had any ideas of this industry being a sparkly gift of a job where you go in and become a star.

Because we have more women in power now, frankly we are less likely to go to war. It’s not in our nature really.

The energy that you expend making yourself look frightened and feeling frightened is just as hard as crying and shouting and all the other extremities of emotion.

I’d be happy just to do theatre work but it can’t pay the bills.

Christopher Walken would make a bed time story pretty interesting I reckon.

My first scene ever on camera was a dinner scene and I ate all the food. They yelled cut and the actor across from me was like, ‘You know you’re going to have to eat the same thing every single time.’ I learned the hard way.

I’d love to play a villain! I always end up playing people that are quite goody-two- shoes. I would love to play someone who is a little bit evil. I think that would be really fun.

I have been very lucky, because I have quite an innocent face and a lot of people are looking for a character who is tough and yet soft and slightly girly. That’s why they call me up.

I wouldn’t want to take a job that I got tied into for six years – that just doesn’t interest me.

I’d really like to make my own work.

I like to do the whole gamut of emotions on stage – big crying, shouting, hair-pulling.

The French are so phenomenally, casually chic!

I was obsessed with ‘The Swish of the Curtain‘ by Pamela Brown when I was a child. It’s about a group of kids who create their own Amateur Theatre company. I was already absolute in my decision to be an actor by this point, but if anything, it confirmed to me that I was on the right path.

I had horrendous teeth. I had 10 years of orthodontist treatment, everything you can think of.

I’d always wanted to go to drama school.

My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years. I applied while I was still at school in my final year, and I didn’t get in anywhere, so I took a job in a comedy club – not doing stand-up comedy, because that’s my idea of hell, but in the office – and I went traveling.

I love the way Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made the first-ever feminist Golden Globes.

The goalposts are still very different. As an actress, you have to earn people’s respect, be professional, turn up on time. Whereas guys can get away with a lot and pass off bad behaviour as, ‘Oh, he‘s so method!’

I like Shakespeare, but it’s not my bread and butter. It’s not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of the ingenue parts leave a lot to be desired, in my opinion.

I mean, I’d love to see ‘The Woman in Black‘ in the Nineties on the rave scene!

It’s incredibly frustrating to constantly read scripts where you’re the girlfriend who is there to further the man‘s storyline.