Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Ruth Bradley

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Sharon Ruth Bradley is an Irish actress. She is best known for playing Emily Merchant in Primeval (2011) and Karen Voss in Humans (2015–18). She has also had recurring roles in Legend, The Innocence Project, Plus One and Love/Hate. She won the IFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2007 for Stardust. Afterward, Bradley won a Best Actress award at the Milan International Film Festival 2010 for her starring performance in the film In Her Skin.

Irish - Actress | Born: January 24, 1987

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All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

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My job is not to be a supermodel.

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On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They're all looking down at their screen.

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If you think about it, there's very little about young families on TV, and yet there's so many of them.

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In life, with my friends, I don't see them as male or female; I just see them as people.

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I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

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In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

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'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.

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It's not, 'I'll do this and make lots of money, and I'll be a star.' It's more, 'I know what art I want to make.'

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I think, so often, women play supporting roles or girlfriends or wives - they're there to support a man's journey.

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In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

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I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing.

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We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

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When I was filming in Budapest for ITV's 'Titanic,' I realised I'd never been to the ballet before so decided to see a production of 'Giselle.' I went on my own. As it was my first ballet, it was a very bizarre and interesting experience but very enjoyable.

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If you're aware of a pattern, you can do something about it, and you can be aware of your own culpability. I like to think I can do that, but, like everyone else, I'm a work in progress.

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I live in trainers and baggy clothes, but on the red carpet, I either go for something very pretty from Temperley London or a structured Roland Mouret dress.

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I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.

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You just don't know who you could fall in love with.

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I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me.

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There is so much room for gender-neutral characters.

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I really enjoy 'Mad Men,' but I'm hugely into 'Homeland.' The characters are very well drawn and complex.

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A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

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I didn't know my mother was an actress until I was eight and she went back to work. At an even younger age than that, I'd wanted to be an actress, so when I saw her, I clearly remember thinking, 'This is a strange coincidence.'

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I'm only ambitious in the sense that I want to work in as many different media as I can and to play characters which are different to me and to each other. I want to do work that frightens me or challenges me, be it in Dublin or Zimbabwe. I just want to be working.

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You're not a combination of all your labels. You just are.

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I think when you work with older actors, who are so good, it's rare that they are egotistical.

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I don't know any woman who's one dimensional, not a single one.

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I saw 'The Help' on DVD. I was blown away by Viola Davis: she really straddled that fine line in the plot between what was tragic and what was heart-warming.

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Very often, as an actress, there's some kind of stereotype, but with any good script, you should be able to swap the genders of all the characters, and it shouldn't make a huge difference.

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In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

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I consider myself lucky to be going about my business doing something I love.

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