You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you do. — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
I'm so open to different things. The only thing I'd say is I've set the bar pretty high in terms of good female roles… — Bel Powley Copy Share
My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called… — Bel Powley Copy Share
I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure. — Bel Powley Copy Share
I feel like all teenagers can relate to that feeling of being, like, so highly strung, and everything is so on the surface, and… — Bel Powley Copy Share
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician. — Bel Powley Copy Share
I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman… — Bel Powley Copy Share
I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.' — Bel Powley Copy Share
All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying… — Bel Powley Copy Share
I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body. — Bel Powley Copy Share
I was doing one of my first plays at the Royal Court, and Matt LeBlanc came to see the play. He came backstage afterwards,… — Bel Powley Copy Share
I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive. — Bel Powley Copy Share
