A biography for Aimee Lou Woodhasn’t been written yet.
“I think the main thing that I would say from drama school, the problem that I have with it is it can make certain people feel - well, there's lots of schooling systems - it can make certain people feel wrong and certain people feel right.”
“I can be extremely content on my most simple days when I just have like, a great chat with my friend and I have a really nice latte. And when I get to read a script that's great and inspiring. I think simplicity was a real thing I took from 'Living.'”
“You have to be super close to yourself, and comfortable with it being revealed, in order to be a good actor.”
“We say being selfless is a really good thing, but if you think about it you're saying self-less, like without a self. You're putting everyone else before you.”
“Anyone who's been bullied knows what it's like to hear these things, to internalise it and turn it in on yourself and go 'If I was just less ugly, just less this, just more this.'”
“I think handing out your heart all the time and giving it to people who don't really love you because they don't know you has been a learning curve. It's about trusting and giving yourself over to the right people and retaining yourself from the wrong.”
“I think being clear and assertive about what you're comfortable with is vital. It can be a scary thing to do because we want people to like us.”
“I want to be able to do a scene that will cost me something, and reveal parts of my soul.”
“When I was growing up, I loved Edie Sedgwick - and then Twiggy, I was obsessed with Twiggy. When I was 14, I actually wrote her a letter and she sent me a signed autograph.”
“Death is something that I really avoid thinking about. It freaks me out. Of course, it freaks everyone out.”
“I don't think there's any point in spending money on mascara - the cheap ones are just as brilliant.”
“Theatre is my default but I did notice when I did 'Sex Education' and came back, I got a little bit of stage fright.”
“I never thought that I'd be in a big TV show.”
“Usually, a script will say something ridiculous like, 'She's sexy but in a nerdy way' or 'She's pretty but doesn't realise.' How do I play that?”
“Fashion is a form of self-expression - even when we don't mean it to be, even if we're just throwing something on, often we are expressing how we feel.”
“With my eating disorder - talking to a therapist about it - it really helped me unravel what was underneath that. Because I think a lot of the time, you deal with, 'Oh, well, I'm eating again now.' But you don't really look at the root.”
“I know a lot of screen actors who think they left it too long to go back on stage and now they have really bad stage fright.”
“Be life-minded and that will come through in your performances. Guessing what the 'industry' wants too much will stifle your true expression.”
“I really want to be the best actor I can be.”
“A lot of us have a trauma response of over-explaining and taking you away from what you're actually feeling.”