Andrea Riseborough

I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my…

— Andrea Riseborough

Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

— Andrea Riseborough

I can walk into meetings now and ask for equal pay, and the people will listen to me. They may not give…

— Andrea Riseborough

I am quite odd-looking in real life.

— Andrea Riseborough

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

— Andrea Riseborough

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

— Andrea Riseborough

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

— Andrea Riseborough

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

— Andrea Riseborough

I don't relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was…

— Andrea Riseborough

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my…

— Andrea Riseborough

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every…

— Andrea Riseborough

I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely…

— Andrea Riseborough

Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War.…

— Andrea Riseborough

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot.…

— Andrea Riseborough

I've always worked very hard.

— Andrea Riseborough

People think I'm totally crackers.

— Andrea Riseborough

Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.

— Andrea Riseborough

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you…

— Andrea Riseborough

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the…

— Andrea Riseborough

I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to…

— Andrea Riseborough

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

— Andrea Riseborough

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

— Andrea Riseborough

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've…

— Andrea Riseborough

I'm still wearing Doc Martens. I'm sure that you can have a baby and wear Doc Martens, but... Maybe I'll be the…

— Andrea Riseborough

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind…

— Andrea Riseborough