Andrea Riseborough

“I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.”

“I'm very pragmatic.”

“I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.”

“I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.”

“Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.”

“I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.”

“Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.”

“Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.”

“There's always hope, and there's always despair.”

“I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.”

“Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.”

“I am quite odd-looking in real life.”

“I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?”