81 Quotes by Andrea Riseborough

I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.

I'm very pragmatic.

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.

I've worked with so few female directors.

I've always worked very hard.

I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.