Rebecca Hall Quotes

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

You either are a good director or you're not.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I don't want to massively slag off Marvel, I don't. Because they have just employed a woman to be their superhero, and so hallelujah.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

Of course, any job is scary, but you tackle the challenges head on and hope for the best.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

No family is sane, is it?

When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.