45 Quotes by Bel Powley

'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age.