Andrea Riseborough Quotes

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Andrea Riseborough

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 20, 1981

I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.

Andrea Riseborough

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

Andrea Riseborough

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

Andrea Riseborough

I don't relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was something I had to figure out really early on, when I was at RADA, because I was being cast, over and over again, as the young, virginal thing. When I left RADA, I was on an absolute mission to never wear make-up.

Andrea Riseborough

Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.

Andrea Riseborough

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.

Andrea Riseborough

I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

Andrea Riseborough

Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with... it feels like the best opportunity that's ever come your way, whether that's in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.

Andrea Riseborough

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.

Andrea Riseborough

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

Andrea Riseborough

I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.

Andrea Riseborough

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.

Andrea Riseborough