70 Quotes by Olivia Colman

I open the doors for everybody all the time.

You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.

If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak - they've always got steel in them.