Lotte Verbeek

“I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.”

“In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made. I don't know who made that song.”

“I feel sexy when I'm natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.”

“Like with 'Outlander' as well as with 'Agent Carter,' I had never heard of 'Outlander' before I got the part.”

“We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.”

“I like playing strong female parts.”

“I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.”

“I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.”

“Marvel used to be male-dominated, and I think that's changing.”

“No relationship is great all the time.”

“That's the job of an actor. You get to be in all these strange new challenging situations.”

“We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing.”

“I don't believe so much in good and evil.”

“For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.”

“You'll never really reach perfection, but the strive for it, I love it.”

“I had never really seen 'Agent Carter' before I got the part.”

“I like the Twiggy look.”

“To get a sense of a person, to get their essence, it's not just about details. It is about something you can't really describe.”