Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I've always thrown like a girl.
I've always worked very hard.
I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.
I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
I've worked with so few female directors.
It's hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we'll become less powerful. But it'll be healthier for the planet and for the eco-system if that does happen. If humans are going to merge with machines, then let's get on with it. I love humans, but I also love dinosaurs - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have wanted them to die out, either.
Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.
My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.
My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.
Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.
People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
People think I'm totally crackers.
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.
Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.
Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.
Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
There's always hope, and there's always despair.
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