Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Holliday Grainger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Holliday Grainger.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Holliday Clark Grainger, also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in Strike, DI Rachel Carey in the BBC One crime drama The Capture and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.

English - Actress | Born: March 27, 1988

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I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.

Holliday Grainger

I'd like to continue acting as long as I enjoy it.

Holliday Grainger

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

Holliday Grainger

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

Holliday Grainger

I'd love to do more independent films.

Holliday Grainger

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Holliday Grainger

I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.

Holliday Grainger

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

Holliday Grainger

'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

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The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

Holliday Grainger

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

Holliday Grainger

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well. I'd love to be able to do a mixture.

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I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.

Holliday Grainger

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

Holliday Grainger

When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.

Holliday Grainger

I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.

Holliday Grainger

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls.

Holliday Grainger

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

Holliday Grainger

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

Holliday Grainger

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

Holliday Grainger

As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

Holliday Grainger

I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.

Holliday Grainger

Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.

Holliday Grainger

I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.

Holliday Grainger

I'm developing a little crush on Michael Fassbender. Really unoriginal.

Holliday Grainger

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

Holliday Grainger

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

Holliday Grainger

I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.

Holliday Grainger

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

Holliday Grainger

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Holliday Grainger

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

Holliday Grainger

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

Holliday Grainger

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

Holliday Grainger

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

Holliday Grainger

I'm getting more selective, the more I do. As an actor, you want to do a variety of things, but first and foremost, it's the script, the quality of the script and the part. If the script is great and it's a part that I believe and I believe the world, that's rarer than you think.

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Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Holliday Grainger

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