I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always. — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man! — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role.… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role. — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent.… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself,… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I don't think I want to play title roles. I don't want to be the face on the poster. I don't want… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job. — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
I'm not going to work for the sake of working. I'll work, if I'm extraordinarily lucky enough to continue having the same opportunities, but… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be. — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy.… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
