I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it’s a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
You’re in this heightened emotional state from the beginning of the play. It’s like when you first have your heart broken. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
I do panic when I’m out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I’m not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
I was raised to please people in authority, and I’d also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
I didn’t grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys’ school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls’ school. Rachael Stirling Read Quote
