Bel Powley

Most of my really strong friendships are with people I've known all my life.

— Bel Powley

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…

— Bel Powley

I loved history and Eastern European politics.

— Bel Powley

'70s music is the kind of music I listen to. '70s clothes, I adore.

— Bel Powley

Let's just say musicals aren't really my thing!

— Bel Powley

My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television…

— Bel Powley

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

— Bel Powley

I feel like all teenagers can relate to that feeling of being, like, so highly strung, and everything is so on the…

— Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

— Bel Powley

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…

— Bel Powley

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

— Bel Powley

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of…

— Bel Powley

I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.

— Bel Powley

I was doing one of my first plays at the Royal Court, and Matt LeBlanc came to see the play. He came…

— Bel Powley

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

— Bel Powley

I actually fall asleep really easily. I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat, though, I have to make sure that all the doors…

— Bel Powley

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the…

— Bel Powley

You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways.…

— Bel Powley

The movies I used to watch, I remember always being so angry because I felt like I, as a teenage girl, was…

— Bel Powley

I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do…

— Bel Powley

If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played…

— Bel Powley

I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like,…

— Bel Powley

I'm one of those girls that, day-to-day, I'm in trainers or Converse. I have about 50 pairs of trainers, so when I…

— Bel Powley

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside…

— Bel Powley

We try to push such crazy ideals onto young women: the Hollywood version of what they should look like, what they should…

— Bel Powley