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" As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. "
Talulah Riley
Wanted
Books
Child
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" I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. "
Talulah Riley
Like
Get
Deathbed
" I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways. "
Talulah Riley
School
Acting
Feel
" My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak. "
Talulah Riley
Like
Used
Say
" My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy. "
Talulah Riley
Comedy
Gangster
Romantic
" My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth. "
Talulah Riley
Fun
Me
Look
" Men are visual creatures. "
Talulah Riley
Men
Visual
Creatures
" I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate. "
Talulah Riley
Chocolate
Tea
Fruit
" 'Westworld' is going to be incredible, and the production line is amazing. That was really nice because Lisa Nolan, who is in charge there, is fabulous and is a great example of a woman doing that role. So that was great, and she's amazing - an incredible writer and fantastic to work with. "
Talulah Riley
Amazing
Woman
Nice
" The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be. "
Talulah Riley
Women
Book
Brave
" When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short. "
Talulah Riley
Children
Short
Always
" Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them? "
Talulah Riley
How
You
Them
" I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless. "
Talulah Riley
Life
Fearless
Ride
" Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game. "
Talulah Riley
You
Answers
Meaning
" I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s. "
Talulah Riley
1920s
Wrote
Set
" I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago. "
Talulah Riley
Acting
Time
Long Time
" I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day. "
Talulah Riley
Every Day
Love
About
" I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized. "
Talulah Riley
Prejudice
Me
Literature
" I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves. "
Talulah Riley
Director
Create
Women
" I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it. "
Talulah Riley
Obsession
Friend
Over
" I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything. "
Talulah Riley
Richard
Would
Literally
" Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like. "
Talulah Riley
Thing
Yoga
Like
" I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends. "
Talulah Riley
Pretty
Normal
Think
" Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for. "
Talulah Riley
Interesting
Universe
Matter
" Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it. "
Talulah Riley
Social
Still
Believe
" I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die. "
Talulah Riley
Die
Crisis
Time
" I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing. "
Talulah Riley
Love
Identity
Soul
" I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. "
Talulah Riley
Losing
Window
School
" I'm terribly, horribly shy. "
Talulah Riley
Horribly
Shy
Terribly
" The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me. "
Talulah Riley
Own
Early
Children
" Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset. "
Talulah Riley
Like
Classics
Possible