Bel Powley Quotes

Bel Powley

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 7, 1992

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

Bel Powley

I'm one of those girls that, day-to-day, I'm in trainers or Converse. I have about 50 pairs of trainers, so when I get the chance to dress up, I will definitely be in heels. 100 percent. I might take some battered Converse in my bag to wear at the after-party when my feet are tired.

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I feel like all teenagers can relate to that feeling of being, like, so highly strung, and everything is so on the surface, and everything is so extreme.

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I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

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I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

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I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.

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I've been star-struck once. I'm a strong believer that everyone's just a person. Whether you've seen someone on screen do something amazing or they're super famous or whatever, everyone's just a person, and they do exactly what all people do.

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I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

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I hope to teach people that it's fine to make mistakes because they will learn from them, to be who they are, and to learn to love their bodies.

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I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

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There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.

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I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

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I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.

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I actually fall asleep really easily. I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat, though, I have to make sure that all the doors are closed, the front door is locked three times, and then make sure everything is covered and look under the bed.

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I feel confident that I'm presenting myself in a feminist way that is good for young women.

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When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

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My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.

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Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

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I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

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Let's just say musicals aren't really my thing!

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