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" 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. "

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" Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with... it feels like the best opportunity that's ever come your way, whether that's in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie. "

Andrea Riseborough

Work

Time

Theatre

" 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. "

" I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people. "

" Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day. "

Andrea Riseborough

Devotion

Every Day

" There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water. "

" 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

Home

You

" 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. "

" I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature. "

" I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy. "

" I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator. "

" I have no interest in doing anything other than good work. "

" My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual. "

" I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own. "

" I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me. "

Andrea Riseborough

Artist

" I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up. "

" Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess. "

" I am quite odd-looking in real life. "

Andrea Riseborough

Real

I Am

" I think every work is hard in different ways. "

" Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years. "

" Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard. "

" When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself. "

" People think I'm totally crackers. "

" When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth. "

" I'm very pragmatic. "

Andrea Riseborough

Very

Pragmatic