Vanessa Kirby

“My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.”

“As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.”

“Acting is a very weird job. But if you know you're an actor, you just have to do it. You can't do anything else.”

“I think my natural home was always the stage.”

“I've always been pretty indifferent towards the royal family. I went on a school trip once to Buckingham Palace, and all I can remember is that it was really boring.”

“I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.”

“I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.”

“I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.”

“I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.”

“I've been told that I have no filter.”

“Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.”

“I've always been so uninterested in playing any kind of archetype of some pure, innocent, virginal woman. I just don't believe it.”

“Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.”

“I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.”

“I love the idea of being an Aries.”

“I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.”

“When you see yourself on a 40-ft. screen. you go, 'Oh My God! I look so weird!'”

“Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.”

“I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.”

“I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.”