Tilda Swinton

“I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.”

“I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.”

“Oh, man, you won't hear me talking about the drudgery of making movies. I don't buy any of that. All those guys who made 'The Revenant,' they loved it. They wanted to make a film, and they were the happiest people around to be doing so.”

“I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.”

“One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.”

“My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane' when I didn't have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image - not the sound - that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin.”

“More and more, there are things in my life that I find hard to say. Like, 'David Bowie and Lorde were at my birthday party.' She's a phenomenal spirit.”

“My understanding is that it's quite difficult for actors in the theater to know anybody but actors in the theater. It's the whole concept of the amniotic fluid surrounding one industry, holding people in place. I've never had a season ticket. I'm always a tourist.”

“I'm amazed now whenever I go back to London. I'm like, 'Wow. I used to kind of swing up these streets when I knew how this machine worked.' And then when you don't, you lose that. You need to get your license back. I do know how to plant a garden and keep chickens, but I don't know how to do much else.”

“The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.”

“For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.”

“The stories I most love are about the benefits of being blown off course.”

“I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.”

“I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.”

“I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.”

“I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.”

“I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this.”

“Faith is in the eye of the beholder.”

“It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.”

“Nobody is working for Marvel who isn't a super-fan. And it's run by the biggest super-fan of them all.”