Top 197 Quotes & Sayings by Felicity Jones - Page 4

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

I think Nelly [Ternan] actually has something very conservative about her, and she's very judgmental of (this other character's) situation, and can see that's about to happen to herself. So she judges it even more harshly [because] it's what she fears becoming.

[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!

I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies 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."

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.