130 Quotes by Carey Mulligan

From Wall Street to Drive was almost a year, when I didn’t do anything ’cause there was just nothing that was significantly different from the things I’d done before. There was just nothing to explore.

It doesn’t matter what you feel – ultimately, it’s what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, ‘Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,’ and find it just didn’t play. I don’t know if I have very good radar about that or not.

I am committed to helping Alzheimer’s Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer’s Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It’s been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

I don’t wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven’t seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I’m very prudish.

I grew up with an older brother, so I’m pretty good at being bashed around.

Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don’t think I’m particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I’m also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

I love New York – maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I’m happiest in New York.

When you do bigger jobs there’s more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you’re trying to think about the person you’re acting with and you’ve got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress – I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.