Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Sienna Miller.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Sienna Rosie Diana Miller is an American and English actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue and for the 2003 Pirelli calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008), and was nominated for the 2008 BAFTA Rising Star Award. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny.
I have the same group of friends I've had since I was three.
I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.
I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.
I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.
I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.
I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.
I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.
I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.
I was blinded by being a romantic person.
I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.
People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.
But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.
As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.
I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.
It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.
I've had some real hair disasters.
I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.
I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.
It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
I'm really domestic.
If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.
I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.
I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.
I'm the black sheep.
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.
Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.
I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.
I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.
I love my job, I've always loved my job.
I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.
It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.
I'm not about hair and makeup.
I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.
I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.
I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.
I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.
I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.
I want a big church wedding.
I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.
I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.
You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.
I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out.
I'm full of curiosity.
My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.
I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.
It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.
I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.
When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.
As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring.
I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.
I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.
I'm really not good at dressing up and being glamorous.