Jessie Buckley

“I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.”

“I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.”

“I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.”

“Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a flame. There's a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.”

“Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.”

“There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.”

“I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.”

“I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.”

“When you get the opportunity to work with somebody like Jude Law, there is a fear. They've got lots of stuff under their belt.”

“Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.”

“I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.”

“I just know that making 'Beast' was an amazing experience. It was my first feature, it was the director's first feature, and every day, you're just trying to do good work and learn.”

“I've been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.”

“I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.”

“I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.”

“It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.”

“I get asked a lot about being a woman within the industry and how difficult it is, and yeah, it is - but it's difficult for everybody... I'm not a 'burn-your-bra' feminist.”

“Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.”

“The archetype of male hero is so boring. And the pretty, boobed woman is so... boring.”

“I like to be out of my depth - that's when I learn the most.”