Phoebe Fox

“I know the fact I've worked continuously since drama school means I fit a stereotype - the ingenue.”

“The energy that you expend making yourself look frightened and feeling frightened is just as hard as crying and shouting and all the other extremities of emotion.”

“I'd be happy just to do theatre work but it can't pay the bills.”

“I think most women are sitting on all this rage we've never been allowed to express. It's an emotion that I think that people find quite unattractive in women which is why you don't see it very often.”

“I had horrendous teeth. I had 10 years of orthodontist treatment, everything you can think of.”

“I went to see 'The Babadook' at the cinema. Even as I was walking there, I was thinking, 'What the hell am I doing here?' Before I would never have seen something that had a poster proclaiming it was shockingly scary or 'You won't sleep at night.' But I paid money and really enjoyed it.”

“My first play was 'A Month in the Country' at the Chichester Festival Theatre.”

“The French are so phenomenally, casually chic!”

“I read somewhere that it's scientifically proven that kids who read 'Harry Potter' grow up to be more well balanced and tolerant when they're older.”

“I have quite a dry sense of humour. It comes out when I'm feeling nervous.”

“I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.”

“2020 has been crap.”

“I don't like water generally.”

“There are centuries worth of conditioning telling us that the thing that gives women status or importance is beauty.”

“I mean, I'd love to see 'The Woman in Black' in the Nineties on the rave scene!”

“The period characters I have played have all been these wonderfully forward-thinking women.”

“I definitely don't think I could be in an open relationship.”

“I was obsessed with 'The Swish of the Curtain' by Pamela Brown when I was a child. It's about a group of kids who create their own Amateur Theatre company. I was already absolute in my decision to be an actor by this point, but if anything, it confirmed to me that I was on the right path.”

“I remember my parents were always around, and that was glorious, but as an adult and as an actor I look back now and see, no, they were at home for long stints because they were unemployed.”

“My first scene ever on camera was a dinner scene and I ate all the food. They yelled cut and the actor across from me was like, 'You know you're going to have to eat the same thing every single time.' I learned the hard way.”