Felicity Jones Quotes

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the boys as well. There's something so human about it.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

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 think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

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. That instills in you a sense of determination.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'

In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.