Andrea Riseborough

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.

Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.

When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.