A biography for Aimee Lou Woodhasn’t been written yet.
“I would advise people to talk to their school bullies. The chances are they are now adults who feel really bad about it.”
“I used to be an introvert, and then I switched.”
“I'm obsessed with hummus. Obsessed. I never stop eating it.”
“I enjoy plummeting the depths of my emotions. Like when I'm acting, I actually find it easier to cry than laugh, for example.”
“Well, I was very close to my mom's parents, very close. And I lived with my nana and granddad and mom for a year. Like I've always just loved being with my nana and granddad. Like they're just the best.”
“I'm not going to be one of those famous people who thinks just gracing you with their presence is amazing.”
“Nobody is exactly like you. Nobody has had your exact lived experience or has your mind or heart.”
“Time is the one thing you can't get back.”
“As women, especially when you're in an environment like school, you have to dilute yourself, because there isn't space for the fully complex, complicated female character that you are.”
“I think it's important to be a generous actor.”
“I actually feel empowered now to say, if I see a script, 'No. I don't want to tell this story. I don't think it's got a social conscience. I don't think it engages with the bigger picture.'”
“When you watch 'Sex Ed,' it's like being with your friends. They're these flawed, human people. They're not aspirational.”
“It's nice to be in something where people actually enjoy watching it.”
“That's what 'Sex Ed' does so beautifully: it's happy then sad, tragic, then funny. It really captures what life is.”
“I was getting so badly bullied, but I pretended none of it was bothering me.”
“You know, we live in this kind of patriarchy, and women feel as a result that they have to be the passive ones in order to be liked. And it can be a really big thing to unlearn.”
“I wanted to be a jobbing actor who went from play to play. That was the plan.”
“More people know Aimee Gibbs than they know me - like millions more.”
“I cry at everything now. If I read a poem that moves me, I'm sobbing. It's like this dam's burst. I feel very connected and I'm not embarrassed.”
“Women are expected to go through pain and it's just not even talked about or even noticed.”