Felicity Jones quotes:

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.

I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

I love not having to rely on anyone.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

I hate it when, in films, the girl looks perfect in every shot. It's quite nice if there's a bit of dark circles underneath the eyes, if we see the reality of the situation that the person is going through.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.