Gemma Arterton

“Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.”

“I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.”

“I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.”

“Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.”

“I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.”

“I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.”

“I was quite naughty at school.”

“Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.”

“I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.”

“My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.”

“I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.”

“It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.”

“I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.”

“I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.”

“I probably should get a bit more star-struck but I never do.”

“My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.”

“You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.”

“I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.”

“It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.”

“My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.”