Felicity Jones Quotes

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

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

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

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.

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.

I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible.

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

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.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

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 think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.

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.

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

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.

I think I actually did a production of "Under Milkwood," this Welsh play, with my drama group (at school), and I always remember taking everything far too seriously, and that it wasn't just a hobby but something I wanted to keep on doing.

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.

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

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 guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.

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 do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would be ostracized. The rigid societal conventions meant that it was difficult to live outside of them.

I think Nelly [Ternan] actually has something very conservative about her, and she's very judgmental of (this other character's) situation, and can see that's about to happen to herself. So she judges it even more harshly [because] it's what she fears becoming.

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.

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

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

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 really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting.

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.

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

I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."

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

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.

My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

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

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

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

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.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

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

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.

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

I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking - it's based on her book about their relationship.That's what the film will be about - they were both incredible, strong, willful individuals and I feel like that Stephen Hawking himself would say that he wouldn't have survived without the influence of Jane Hawking, and they were an incredible team together.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!