Andrea Riseborough Quotes

• I’m an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.

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• I think, really, what I’m interested in is whole women, real people.

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• I think the most important thing when you’re telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

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• 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.

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• I think it’s the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

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• I think every work is hard in different ways.

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

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• I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

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• I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I’ve come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

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

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• I don’t read reviews, and it’s not because I don’t think I can learn something, I’m sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you’re doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

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• 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.

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• I am quite odd-looking in real life.

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• I am a Graham Greene fan – I’m just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

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

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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.

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Andrea Riseborough (36)

Birth:	20th November, 1981
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Andrea Louise Riseborough was born in Jesmond, and grew up in Whitley Bay, England. She is an English actress. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2005. She appeared in the 2010 films Made in Dagenham and Mark Romanek's adaptation of Never Let Me Go. She starred in the US premiere of Alexi Kaye Campbell's award-winning The Pride at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in January 2010. She worked with The Devil's Whore author Peter Flannery on his screenplay based on the life of Angelica Fanshawe with Michael Fassbender. In 2009 she was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for playing the title character in Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley. She won the Royal Television Society Award and The Broadcasting Press Guild for her role in The Devil's Whore.

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