Elizabeth Debicki Quotes

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.

When you are being flown for a big movie, you are always looked after well.

Being on a film set, you are always around such fantastic people. And I feel like I've been lucky. I feel like I've worked with the best of the best.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

Being an actor doesn't mean that I can't react to what's happening around me.

I couldn't believe how big Ben Affleck's trailer was. It was like a spaceship - I remember thinking, I'd live in that.

I don't want to just be another actor in L.A. looking for a job.

I just got an opportunity to do that with a film called 'Lootcase', and it's an opportunity that I am really grateful for.

When we were doing 'Criminal Justice,' they were filming 'Clash of the Titans' nearby and we kept nicking off to their catering tent and going, 'Look what they've got!'

It's such a thrill walking onto a film set.

Acting began as a casual thing, but along the way, I did films like 'Happy Days,' '100% Love,' and 'Baahubali' that made me fall in love with cinema. I can't imagine being in any other profession.

Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.

I remember typing up my dissertation sitting in a horse box - I didn't qualify for a caravan - on a set in Pinewood on my first film, 'Still Crazy.'

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

Me and my brother Sunny never had the enthusiasm of visiting a film set or going to a screening or attending parties and meeting actors.

When you go to a film set, of course you're going to do your job, and you're excited about being there, but you somehow feel fatigued that you are just doing this day in and day out.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

I have shot four films for sure. On most days, I wish that there were 48 hours in a day. When a movie is coming to an end and another is going to start, I've felt that I don't want to let go of this one just yet and say goodbye to the character nicely.

I don't miss acting in films. I haven't had that many good experiences with it. If I had, I probably would like it more.

I was dying to start shooting for 'Paiyya.' I had worn no good clothes for months, and I was dying to wear good clothes. And, for 'Paiyya,' they gave me eight clothes to change in a day!

I just enjoy what I do - looking forward to going on a film set, being in front of the camera, interacting with many people. I'm fortunate to be living my dream.

I was in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you're a little kid, that's cool.

I had to leave my three-year acting course at Guildhall a little early to start filming Chris Nolan's 'Dunkirk.' It was an absolute dream come true.