64 Quotes by Alice Eve

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.

People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there can be fury and sexual tension. All that stuff can co-exist so it's just a testament to how complex we are. Or maybe it's a testament to how boringly we try and simplify everything.

I'm not big on awareness about what's going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts.

Obviously I have a bit of an awareness because I go to the internet like everybody else but I don't get too involved in the details of those conversations just because it can hurt you if you stumble on something that's not nice.