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" I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually. "
Elizabeth Debicki
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" Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Time
Work
Better
" I am very tall, and when you're a teenager, you want to be like everyone else. I used to slump a lot; it's very human at that stage to want to be part of the crowd and not want any part of you that is sticking out. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Want
Human
I Am
" A good night in is a series of documentaries. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Good
Night
Good Night
" I don't think it's healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it's positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Life
Yourself
Think
" When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Place
Arts
College
" You think there's a rule book, in a way, until you realize there's absolutely no rule book, and you can use a red carpet to express something about yourself. There are so many wonderful designers in the world, and they create such wonderful things. Why go with something uninteresting? "
Elizabeth Debicki
World
Book
Red
" Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Acting
Training
Like
" Majorca is this destination where, you know, you have a lot of money, but you want to go somewhere quite exclusive. And the culture of the island is still traditionally Spanish. It hasn't been infested by tourists. I think, in the '20s or something, an extremely wealthy person built this little kingdom of villas. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Money
Know
Think
" I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Age
Thought
Learning
" I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Day
Myself
Think
" There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Trying
Theatre
Explore
" I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I'll play a lawyer one day - the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Lawyer
Law
Day
" Television is the medium that's allowing women's stories to flourish. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Flourish
Stories
Women
" I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby', so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Camera
Mission
Myself
" It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Time
Theatre
School
" My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school. "
Elizabeth Debicki
School
Think
Body
" I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Age
Me
Parents
" I feed off variety. I don't want to repeat myself if I can help it, but once they've seen you doing one thing, directors often just want you to do it again. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Help
I Can
Myself
" Sometimes I have a nervous breakdown over my suitcase - over socks - because your brain just goes, 'I just can't pack again. I can't.' You're looking at your suitcase going, 'I'm in five countries in two weeks, and it's four different seasons.' That's when my brain melts. "
Elizabeth Debicki
You
Brain
Looking
" On a red carpet, you really want to feel your best, so to work with a designer who will shape a dress to your figure and take into consideration your opinions is really a blessing. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Dress
Blessing
Best
" It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Height
Life
My Life
" I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Try
Others
Best
" Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Technical
You
Open
" Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Kind
Great
Never
" I have to say that filming 'The Night Manager' was not just amazing but also very daunting at first. I used to describe myself as the token plebeian surrounded by all your national treasures. All that glittering talent in one place; I knew Hugh from Fry and Laurie videos that my grandpa used to watch, and Tom Hollander's 'Rev' is hilarious. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Myself
Amazing
Talent
" I've always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I've also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan. "
Elizabeth Debicki
She
Intelligence
Grace
" As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Surroundings
Got
Child
" One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Think
You
Time
" I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me. "
Elizabeth Debicki
Time
Strength
Same
" It often happens that you leave your house in the dark, shoot on a sound stage without natural lighting, and then go home in the dark. A whole week can go past, and it can feel like 12 hours. "
Elizabeth Debicki
You
Week
Past