Andrea Riseborough Quotes

• You can’t tell what’s going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

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• When you’re playing a romantic version of a real person, you’re playing a version of the truth.

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• When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

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• When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

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

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• Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.

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

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

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• Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don’t realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

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• People are fascinating. They’re so unique and I think what’s more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that’s where the gold dust is.

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• People think I’m totally crackers.

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• Often, I’ll read a script and the female character’s an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character’s narrative and it just isn’t fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

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• 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.

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

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• I’ve worked with so few female directors.

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• I’ve always worked very hard.

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• I’ve always thrown like a girl.

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• I’m very pragmatic.

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• I’m not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we’re actually ready?

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

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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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