66 Quotes by Jessie Buckley

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.

Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.

Whatever has happened in your past, it's - you can never deny it. I mean, you can never wash what's happened before in your life out of you.

We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'

I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.

I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.

I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.

Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a flame. There's a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.