Ruth Wilson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Age #Safe #Different
I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Ideas #Dirt
With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Thinking #Acting #Cameras
What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Play #Roles #Actors
It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Fun #Powerful #Play
What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Ideas
I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Shy
It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Jobs #Drama #School
I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Character #Complicated
It's how you prioritize in life.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Prioritize
My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Want #Lasts #Different
My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Parent #Roles #Comedy
There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Actresses #Moments
There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Religious #Believe #Church
There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Fashion #Jobs #Opportunity
I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Challenges #Theatre #Want
I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Teacher #Drama #School
I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Thinking #World #Want
Every actor turns everything round to their character.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Character #Actors #Turns
Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Interesting #Cleaning
For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Beautiful #Character #Frustration
I don't really plan. I just see what happens.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Plans
I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Two #People
I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Voice #Dancing #Parent
I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Strong #Character #Soul
I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Thinking #Clothes #Style
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Racism #Groups #States

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