I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

- Olivia Colman

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

- Olivia Colman

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my…

- Olivia Colman

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

- Olivia Colman

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked …

- Olivia Colman

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'B…

- Olivia Colman

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

- Olivia Colman

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's …

- Olivia Colman

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

- Olivia Colman