Felicity Jones Quotes

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

I never wanted to nap. I was always mature for my age. I wanted to put on a dress and look cute. Everyone else can nap, but I'm going to be a princess over here!

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I was always in love with film and becoming a character and playing something else, and nobody ever told me no, so I just followed it, and here I am, having a ton of fun.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.