Andrea Riseborough

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. ”

I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready? ”

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years. ”

I have no interest in doing anything other than good work. ”

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst. ”