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" I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz. "
Ella Purnell
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" What I love about this job is it's literally a different day every single day, isn't it? One day you're a nurse, the next day you're in a band - you can just make it up. I'm just a big kid, and that's really what this job is - just playing dress-up every day. "
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" That's something I want to do: cover all sorts of genres to find the one I love most. "
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" Growing up and working at the same time is difficult. "
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" There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves. "
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" I don't want to inspire people to look pretty and buy makeup. I want to inspire them to knit scarves for Syrian refugees. "
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" I'd like to be smart, fun, and real. It's very easy to just put together a pretty dress, some heels, and some jewels. I don't want to be that girl. It's all about being brave, taking risks. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. "
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" I love pasta. It's something in the water. The pasta and the bread in New York are so good. "
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" I love movies where you can tell who's directed it even before the credits roll in, like Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. People who make very stylized types of film. "
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" At 9, I started taking classes at Sylvia Young Theatre School. One day, they asked if I wanted to join their agency. You get in if you're cute, I guess. "
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" I can do a really good animal impression! I'm great at ducks, cats, dogs, and occasionally dolphins. "
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" The 1950s is my favourite era. "
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" I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way. "
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" When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated. "
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" Moving to New York is a big, brave thing to do. "
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" I didn't really have idols growing up, but some of my friends were huge fangirls. "
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" I've acted for as long as I can remember, really. "
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" I had quite a bit of experience doing things that had been adapted from a book and playing real-life characters and playing the younger version of actors. That's kind of my thing. "
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" When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken. "
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" I like to prove people wrong. "
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" The world is changing, and you have to keep up with the way the world is changing as well as your own expectations that you set for yourself or that your family might set you. "
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" It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that. "
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