I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, bu…

- Elizabeth Debicki

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, b…

- Elizabeth Debicki

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run …

- Elizabeth Debicki

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

- Elizabeth Debicki

I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possi…

- Elizabeth Debicki

I don't really look at the skillset of being an actor as different in each medium. It asks a different thing of you as an actor, but for me, I draw u…

- Elizabeth Debicki

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradua…

- Elizabeth Debicki

There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping …

- Elizabeth Debicki

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

- Elizabeth Debicki