Quotes from Andrea Riseborough

I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?

When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

I'm still wearing Doc Martens. I'm sure that you can have a baby and wear Doc Martens, but... Maybe I'll be the first person to give birth in Doc Martens!

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

David Suchet's Poirot was very charming, and, when I'm away in the U.S., those series remind me of being in Britain and being British on a Sunday night.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.

There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.

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.

Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

I'm very pragmatic.

I think every work is hard in different ways.

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

'Venus,' which is a Roger Michell film - my first scene was with Peter O'Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.

I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.