Actresses From England

"I do some conventions and that’s always really nice because you get to meet fans, But at the same time, a lot of people, they might have a favorite character, but it’s more that they’re not really thinking about you. They’re thinking about the world and I think the world is what everyone’s obsessed with, really."

"Female education in the world – every girl should have the right to education – and gender equality, hence lending my face and support to Plan UK’s ‘Because I am A Girl’ campaign. And you should watch ‘Girl Rising’ too. I also feel very strongly about supporting charities for vulnerable children. That’s why I ran the London Marathon in 2014 for Barnardo’s. Whether affected by poverty, abuse, disability, addiction or isolation, no child should ever feel that they are alone and life isn’t worth living."

"I think Harry Potter works so well because at the core of it, if you think about it, it’s about a kid that is suffering child abuse and finds his family not in family, but in friends. I think that’s such an amazing message and, obviously, it’s coupled with magic, which we all want to want to be real, all of us. And it’s coupled with really trying to process death as well, which is why I think it’s such a successful thing. Because it does all those things for children, but for adults as well."

"It doesn’t matter what angle you approach a character from (because that varies) ultimately my process is the same regardless of the medium. A human approaching another human. What does this person want or rather think they want?"

"And on doing the research and noticing the very clear effects of global warming, it’s something that I really wanted to raise awareness for."

"So we need to let our leaders know this, that this is the future that we want for ourselves and for those we love, our children and our grandchildren"

"We need to switch over, move over, to renewable energy and let nature provide us with power — and not just power, positive power."

"A good script is a good script. I want three-dimensional, truthful characters that the audience will care about and a script that has something to say. Even if the script is just for pure entertainment and escapism it can have something to say. I look now for roles that are different from what I have done before. I want to challenge myself and people’s perceptions of me. If we challenge ourselves, we grow."

"I don’t want anyone to make money catching me out being me. I want to give them all of me."

"I’m telling you, I’m guaranteeing you, you are not alone. If you have a trusted contact, you [can] feel an instant where you’re not being judged. That is the doorway to your own liberation – and that is the doorway to freedom, freedom from your mind."

"We’re migrating from our selfies to what we stand for, she says. I’m very, very grateful that we’re moving toward art, creativity, and community, and that’s where I think the solution lies for all of our younger generations"

"If I were to make something, I wouldn’t want it to be polished or clean or fussy."

"I remember being a youngster, running around and not having a phone and not having any kind of labeling in my mind and just free-playing … It felt timeless."

"I would never show one side of me because that’s setting myself up to fail"

"Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed by what’s demanded of me as an actor, The selfie phenomenon has taken us down a route where our identity and our values are lost."

"With these reels that are 3 seconds, everything is timed and everything has an expiration, and I think that’s where social anxiety comes in."

"It was really shocking; it was the first time I had ever been dragged into something like that. And it wasn't just me, it was my family. I had seen the absurdity of what I was being accused of, and what my partner was being accused of. I decided for my own health that I was not going to try and convince these people otherwise. I just wasn't going to do it."

"I went through this period where I was just obsessed with makeup and I wore a ton of it, and then I suddenly realized how much I was wearing, and the fact that I was spending all this money. I think now I'm just trying to be more comfortable with what I have rather than having to cover up. But I do love putting makeup on for a night out."

"For an era when women were expected to conform, these women are totally in charge of the show. To read a piece of material from a period drama told from the woman’s perspective is just so unique."

"[Of Mrs Worboys in One Foot In The Grave] She always wanted to help and meant well all the time. It's just that she was tactless and not very bright, although occasionally she'd have these strange streaks of knowledge, like the time she knew all the answers while playing Trivial Pursuit."

"I was rolled down a hill and mounted by a dog."

"No one else could have played Mrs Warboys as she did and the honesty that she brought to every line, however bizarre, was what made the character so funny and legitimised even the maddest of moments. There was never the remotest suggestion that she was playing comedy: in her hands it was all utterly real."

"What did I dream about at Boots? Well, the big ambition was to get onto the cosmetics, but I never made it...""

"I guess my gender has always been very fluid. Someone would call me ‘she’ or ‘her’ and I wouldn’t think about it, but I knew that if someone called me ‘he’ it was a bit exciting. … I’m very much just a person. Being gendered isn’t something that I particularly like, but in terms of pronouns, I really couldn’t care less."

"Bella felt so real. It was like Ellie realized in live action. It didn’t feel like watching an actor."

"Buzzing to be baptised tonight!! My faith is such a massive part of my life and so now I’m ready to be dunked (yep it’s a full immersion baptism) and say publicly that Jesus is my Saviour."

"There isn’t always an answer but let me tell you this — there’s always a way out. There’s always light at the end of the tunnel no matter how dim it might seem. I am fortunate to have reached that light, at moments it felt non existent. But it was always there. For me that light was Jesus. My faith played a huge part in my recovery [from anorexia] and so did my family. I don’t know your stories but I felt compelled to share mine. Keep on speaking, do not be silent. Let’s continue to break the silence around mental health."

"We were looking for a specific combination of contradictions: Someone that can be funny and quirky, and violent and rough. I didn’t see Bella acting like Ellie — I saw Ellie."

"I seriously considered that maybe I don’t want to be famous so I’m not going to do this show [The Last of Us] because it’s going propel me to a place I don’t want to go to in terms of being seen and being known. I like to blend in and hide."

"It’s only recently that I’ve accepted I am Ellie, and I can do it, and I am a good actor. But this will last for a few weeks and then I’ll think I’m terrible again. That’s just the process."

"More and more I realized that Ireland could rely only on force, in some form or another, to free herself."

"You have a hatred of the Catholic Church, ... But, for your poetry you will be forgiven. But sin no more."

"The obstacles against us in Nigeria are way greater – power is one of the biggest"

"Opportunities don’t just come; you have to work hard for it. Invest in your craft and you will reap the fruits of it."

"On this night, Mrs. Poe, lingering on the bed of disease, and surrounded by her children, asks your assistance and asks it perhaps for the last time."

"We [have to] come back to the central human aspect that Black women are not an ideology. We're not a myth, we're not a fantasy and we're not a concept."

"If you are a black person in entertainment or a black person in sport, and you ‘fail’, you are reminded that you cannot do both."

"There's real work to be done, there are frank conversations to be had. A magazine cover is already pretty, the words don't have to be."

"Take your time, please be gentle."

"“Every seat at the table you get, you must remind people that the strength of Black women sometimes comes from trauma. Sometimes comes from ancestral, spiritual trauma that we don’t even know about, or it comes from fear, or it comes from anxiety, it comes from society throwing this film over us that we did not ask for and that we have to deal with in our everyday encounters.”"

""When talking about ‘strong Black women,’ we don’t just assume that their strength fell out of the sky and landed in their brain.”"

""We can’t continue to trust the government to do the right thing.”"

"While we watch her, we view the world through the eyes of a great person."

"a quite wonderful woman and actress, which were indivisible in her case."

"Peggy joked in an interview in 1984."

"I think I'm going to be overexposed after total anonymity."

"I never thought I was subject matter for an Oscar. How wonderful to be given it, I’ve been killed with kindness."

"Peggy while receiving oscar award in 1985."

"It was as if all the lights had suddenly gone up. It is true even in her own living room."

"As the protagonist, I became louder and louder each time we re-shot it until I decided to cut right back for the final take. She said, "I knew you’d get it." She understood in the nicest possible way that if I was worth my bread and butter, I would realise shouting wasn’t the way forward."