Carey Mulligan Quotes

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

I never really get to play a character who's my own age. I kind of look a little bit younger for my age.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.

I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career.

Usually, I play people who are a lot younger than I am, because people think that I look really young, which I do.

I love it when I get to play characters that are much younger than I am in real life. I feel it's an advantage.

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger.

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as his grandmomma's friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.