Andrea Riseborough Quotes

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Andrea Riseborough

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 20, 1981

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.

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I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

Andrea Riseborough

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

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Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.

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I've always worked very hard.

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Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.

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

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I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.

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We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.

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You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

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

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I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.

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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.

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People think I'm totally crackers.

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We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.

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I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

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I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

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I play myself every day, and it's quite boring.

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I am quite odd-looking in real life.

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I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.

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