You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
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. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent – as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
I don’t relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was something I had to figure out really early on, when I was at RADA, because I was being cast, over and over again, as the young, virginal thing. When I left RADA, I was on an absolute mission to never wear make-up. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
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. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
It’s hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we’ll become less powerful. But it’ll be healthier for the planet and for the eco-system if that does happen. If humans are going to merge with machines, then let’s get on with it. I love humans, but I also love dinosaurs – I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have wanted them to die out, either. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
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. Andrea Riseborough Read Quote
