130 Quotes by Carey Mulligan

I’m more the sort of person who doesn’t like hugging strangers because we don’t know each other, so we shouldn’t.

There’s always the things that you think are going to be tough. I’ve been nude once, and I was like, “Oh, that’s going to be a nightmare,” and actually that was fine.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it’s exciting because I get to work with them.

I remember in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum’s funeral. Actually, she’s very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

With theatre especially, you don’t want to do it unless you love it – there’s no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.

My character in ‘Shame’ is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn’t want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don’t want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn’t want to repeat myself.

Remakes are a difficult thing ’cause some people feel very protective of the original.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you’re selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it’s like we’re saying, ‘Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We’re available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!’