Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share
I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
