A biography for Joanna Kulighasn’t been written yet.
“Sometimes I like to be more simple - simple colours, to be completely empty.”
“Being from the countryside gave me a spine, and it's why I'm so accepting - I don't judge people for how they look or how they talk... I just accept everyone.”
“When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.”
“My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of cancer. I remember in the middle of shooting going, 'Oh my God! Why did I decide to do this?' But people noticed me in it and I started getting invited to castings.”
“I love 'The Godfather.'”
“I was 6 when communism was finished.”
“My experience with the National Theatre in Kracow often involved many changes of storyline and character. This was particularly useful when working with a director such as Pawel Pawlikowski who is quite intuitive and demands flexibility in an actor.”
“Anyone can fall in love.”
“I'm not a professional dancer.”
“I am a very neurotic person all the time.”
“You can't really plan with acting!”
“I think that the two worlds of fashion and acting world have a lot of common things, because we all build a character.”
“On television, I love 'The Crown,' and 'The Affair' is so psychological.”
“I grew up in a small village outside of Krakow, and when I was small we had only a small television, and we had only one and two programs. I remember it was black and white. And I loved to watch Charlie Chaplin. I was so small, but I remember his movement.”
“Music was my first love; acting was something that wasn't important to me early on.”
“I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.”
“Poland is a country of strong women.”
“I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.”
“My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come. You had to be ready.”
“When we are older we are very smart, but when we are younger we don't think we are happy, we have all of life ahead of us.”