Carey Mulligan

I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"

— Carey Mulligan

I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool,…

— Carey Mulligan

With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off,…

— Carey Mulligan

It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but…

— Carey Mulligan

When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It…

— Carey Mulligan

People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in…

— Carey Mulligan

I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that…

— Carey Mulligan

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

— Carey Mulligan

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the…

— Carey Mulligan

The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down…

— Carey Mulligan

I'm not going to work for the sake of working. I'll work, if I'm extraordinarily lucky enough to continue having the same…

— Carey Mulligan

People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.

— Carey Mulligan

I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I…

— Carey Mulligan

I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something…

— Carey Mulligan

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and…

— Carey Mulligan

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I…

— Carey Mulligan

I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually…

— Carey Mulligan

It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.

— Carey Mulligan

I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want…

— Carey Mulligan

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

— Carey Mulligan

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.

— Carey Mulligan

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself,…

— Carey Mulligan

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

— Carey Mulligan

Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is…

— Carey Mulligan

I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role.…

— Carey Mulligan