Quotes from Alice Eve

If I feel vulnerable, I get angry.

Both my parents are actors.

Women are less aesthetic than men.

It's no secret that beauty starts with water. It's just a basic thing - you look better if you drink loads of water. When I'm working, that's definitely the main thing I do.

I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never - death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It's so clearly placed there for you with divorce.

I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

Our deep desires define us, really.

China's a big tea culture.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

I support equal rights and equal dignity for all.

What you're seeing, certainly on Instagram, is not real, not a reflection of real life, not an interaction.

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

I can't play a 65-year-old grandfather, as much as I'd like to.

I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.

All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.

My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it?

Men are more visual creatures and rate women based on looks. We like to laugh and be shown a good time. I've never rated anyone on looks.