Ruth Wilson quotes:

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what you wear. People care so much about that these days.

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.

I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like.

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Brexit for me was really interesting because I was in the heart of Yorkshire, which is a "leave" area. It was quite odd actually, a real deep sense of unease. You felt very odd for your country. You have lots of people that are angry. It's a very physical and public stand that these people are making.

Even now, for women to be contemplating the act of ending their life is considered horrific because they are the giver of life. They're seen in a patriarchal society as the one who offers life and has to nurture a child and have a child within them. That's your only role.

I admire the brazen qualities in people.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings.

I'd love to direct again.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

I'm not very good at lying.

In Britain, we haven't got enough money to make these long-running shows. We always do little mini ones. You have more control as an actor over what you want to do with it. On these you drive yourself mad trying to know what's going to happen, because the writers don't.

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

It's how you prioritize in life.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic. I fail to get anything that way.

Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

We'll always have art, darling.

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.