Anya Taylor-Joy

Modeling had never entered my consciousness. I was always like, 'I'm going to act.' But I thought, 'If this can help me…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

My first school play was 'Perkin and the Pastry Cook' that my primary school put on, and I played a boy, and…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere, which makes me belong everywhere.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it's mine. We…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I got scouted when I was 16, almost 17, and it was something that had never entered my thoughts. I never thought…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I got scouted for modeling, and it was really scary - I was walking my dog wearing heels for the first time…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

My goal is to make a movie that no one would sort of expect me to make.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world,…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

Even the strongest bonds, flesh and blood, they can just evaporate in a second given the right conditions.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growing up. And 'Freaks and Geeks.' And '8…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don't really - I don't cope very…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I'd love to work with the Coen brothers. And Steven Spielberg. 'E.T.' was big for me.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know,…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I swear like a sailor.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.

— Anya Taylor-Joy

I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'

— Anya Taylor-Joy