Explore Quotes by Vanessa Kirby

I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.

I love the idea of being an Aries.

I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.

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

As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of theater directors in the film, like Stephen Daldry on 'The Crown' and Richard Eyre on 'The Dresser.'

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.

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.

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once a week, and I make a huge lasagne.

What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.

I think my natural home was always the stage.

I was always bossing my sister around.

I've played a lot of untalented people.

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

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

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

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

Some of my favourite characters have been people like Masha in 'Three Sisters' and Elena in 'Uncle Vanya.'