45 Quotes by Bel Powley

I always wear lip balm because I wear a lot of lipstick. I'm a big lipstick person. I would rather wear too-bright lipstick than too-heavy eye makeup.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

Most of my really strong friendships are with people I've known all my life.

I'm so open to different things. The only thing I'd say is I've set the bar pretty high in terms of good female roles with 'Diary,' and I want to continue in that vein.

I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

I loved history and Eastern European politics.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

The movies I used to watch, I remember always being so angry because I felt like I, as a teenage girl, was never truly represented in a film. There were always bits of me that were represented - I'd watch 'Juno' and be like, 'Oh, well part of me is like that, but it's still not the whole thing.'