Felicity Jones Quotes

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.

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'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

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

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.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

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

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

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.

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.

[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'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!

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

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.

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.