Hayley Atwell Quotes

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• Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.
• I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.
• I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.
• I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.
• I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.
• It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.
• Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.
• My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
• The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
• The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks…
• From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
• I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.
• I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.
• I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.
• I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.
• I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.
• I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.
• Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the…
• Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the…
• I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

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