Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes

Anya Taylor-Joy

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 16, 1996

I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growing up. And 'Freaks and Geeks.' And '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.'

Anya Taylor-Joy

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere, which makes me belong everywhere.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Even the strongest bonds, flesh and blood, they can just evaporate in a second given the right conditions.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I just want to see what life's going to throw my way. So far, it's been very unexpected. I'm kinda on a roller coaster and want to enjoy that.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I got scouted for modeling, and it was really scary - I was walking my dog wearing heels for the first time ever because I had a party to go to the day after, and I wanted to practice, and this black car kind of started following me, so I, being dramatic, picked up the dog and started to run.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I swear like a sailor.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there's this sense of displacement - I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I can't do something that I would not throw myself under a bus for.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I just want to work with wonderful people.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I have an active imagination.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Movies were my first love.

Anya Taylor-Joy

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

Anya Taylor-Joy

'The Witch' is feminist.

Anya Taylor-Joy

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.

Anya Taylor-Joy