17 Quotes by Eve Best

There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.