Julia Garner

“I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.”

“'When Harry Met Sally'... is probably my favourite movie.”

“I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.”

“'Beetlejuice' used to scare me.”

“If a person feels like 'They're not acknowledging me'... That's a very important feeling in life, even if it's not romantic.”

“I have a journal, and every character that I play, I write as the character: how I feel about things and how I'm going to play it.”

“I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.”

“I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.”

“I just want to continue to learn as an actor and as a person.”

“If you really love something, just continue doing it.”

“The thing that I look for in a script - I'm not looking for anything next because you never know where life's going to take you, so you can't just expect, 'I want to do this next.' So I'm not expecting anything; I'm just hoping.”

“I think Matthew Rhys is great. I think he's a phenomenal actor.”

“I'm very good in letting things go; there's always new things, and I'm a big believer in 'everything happens for a reason' kind of thing.”

“When a child knows there's a secret, they don't know what it is, but they know it's there, and they know they're being lied to.”

“If you feel like you're doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you're not listening because you're too preoccupied with yourself... you're not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you're naturally going to get that response that the camera's going to pick up because you just react.”

“I go wherever the good story is.”

“There were no secrets in my house. I always knew what was going on.”

“People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.”

“My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.”

“You have to add some sort of dimension to each of your characters because everyone has their own layers.”