Talulah Riley Quotes

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Talulah Riley

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 26, 1985

Men are visual creatures.

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I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

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I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

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I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.

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I'm terribly, horribly shy.

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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.

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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.

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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

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The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.

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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

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'Westworld' is going to be incredible, and the production line is amazing. That was really nice because Lisa Nolan, who is in charge there, is fabulous and is a great example of a woman doing that role. So that was great, and she's amazing - an incredible writer and fantastic to work with.

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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

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