Vanessa Kirby

“You should choose who you love.”

“I'm not a model. I don't really think much about how I look. If I did, I'd go mad.”

“My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.”

“My hair has been so wrecked over the years by various things.”

“I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.”

“You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.”

“Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.”

“Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.”

“I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.”

“When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?”

“I did The 'Acid Test' at the Royal Court, by Anya Reiss, who's the most wonderful, amazing female writer. She was only 19 when she wrote it. She wrote it about three girls in a flat on a Friday night, and that was magic because it was so rare to have three girls in your age group in a play. It just doesn't happen.”

“I don't see the point of grumpy people.”

“I've played a lot of untalented people.”

“On screen, everyone stares at your face, but on stage, you can basically play anybody.”

“I just love people. I love them a lot.”

“You are what you think. I really believe that. And I don't think you ever stop doubting yourself.”

“I hate the idea of massive fame. I think the scariest thing for an actor is when your name becomes bigger than your craft or what you can do.”

“I don't have a lot of instinctive fashion style myself.”

“To play anybody real and famous is very scary.”

“Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov... they're masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.”