Jessica Brown Findlay famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Book #Laughing #Stories
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Eight #Two #Dancer
I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Character #Mean #Play
I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Strong #Female #Roles
I've been told I make a very good brew.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Very Good
There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Moving #Skirts #Reason
Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Three #Ankles #Problem
Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Girl #Play #People
I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut and dress the female shape. Her stuff is really beautiful, stylish and a little bit quirky. I love it all!
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Beautiful #Cutting #Thinking
I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Past #Blue #House
I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Girl #Character #Play
I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Country #Heart #Years
On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Jobs #Character #Work Out
I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Tears #Remember #Stealing
I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Ipods #Kind #Endless
You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Death #Thinking #Dying
I love when people become obsessed with Downton.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#People #Obsessed
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Acting #Emotion #Adore
And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Lovely #Strange #Realizing
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#War #Grandmother #Nurse
I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Jobs #Attitude #Thinking
At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Thinking
Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Numbers #Lucky #Three
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Way #Embarrassing #Should
I am a hopeless romantic.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Hopeless Romantic #Hopeless
I don't know if I'm so righteous.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Righteous
I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Giving #Mind #Shock
Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying when someone is fuming and talks in a very calm way. I always want people to shout at me if they're angry - it freaks me out that whole thing of, 'I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.'
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Thinking #People #Want

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