Rachael Stirling

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

— Rachael Stirling

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

— Rachael Stirling

I always like a character who makes me laugh.

— Rachael Stirling

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

— Rachael Stirling

I have never met anybody who likes 'The Detectorists' that I don't like.

— Rachael Stirling

I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.

— Rachael Stirling

I'm not really Bond girl material, and that's fine by me. I'm a grafter; I'm not a star.

— Rachael Stirling

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.

— Rachael Stirling

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment…

— Rachael Stirling

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive…

— Rachael Stirling

I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for…

— Rachael Stirling

I like cake, I swear a lot, and I hardly ever go to the hairdresser. I don't think I'm a movie star.

— Rachael Stirling

Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop…

— Rachael Stirling

Kristin Scott Thomas is terrific. She has a career in France and a career in England: how cool is that? I wouldn't…

— Rachael Stirling

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

— Rachael Stirling

I remember typing up my dissertation sitting in a horse box - I didn't qualify for a caravan - on a set…

— Rachael Stirling

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I…

— Rachael Stirling

My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were…

— Rachael Stirling

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in…

— Rachael Stirling

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to…

— Rachael Stirling

I remember I went to audition for the first Daniel Craig Bond film, 'Casino Royale.' I was there in this Versace dress,…

— Rachael Stirling

My mum says I never had tantrums. I had elongated and very complicated tea parties in my cot, and I was sort…

— Rachael Stirling

I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the…

— Rachael Stirling

I think if I'd been born ten years earlier when Ma was at the height of 'Avengers' fame, it would have been…

— Rachael Stirling

My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.

— Rachael Stirling

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

— Rachael Stirling

I feel sexier in my 40s than I did in my 20s and 30s.

— Rachael Stirling

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

— Rachael Stirling

If you aren't hot in Hollywood, you feel like you're in Siberia.

— Rachael Stirling

You're in this heightened emotional state from the beginning of the play. It's like when you first have your heart broken.

— Rachael Stirling

I always hate it when I hear actors talking about the process of what they do, so I'll keep my thoughts to…

— Rachael Stirling

When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do…

— Rachael Stirling

I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.

— Rachael Stirling

There is a sense of shame that comes with unemployment. I didn't become a movie star, and I was a size 14.

— Rachael Stirling

I can't think of anything better than being considered a poster girl for intelligent women.

— Rachael Stirling

In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination…

— Rachael Stirling

'Ambitious' is seen as a dirty word, especially when it comes to women. But what being ambitious actually means is to achieve…

— Rachael Stirling

There's a bit of a Bertie Wooster about my father. He's very easy-going, he never judges people, and we get on brilliantly.

— Rachael Stirling

I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.

— Rachael Stirling

Having brothers - I love that. They don't take any rubbish, and they beat you up if you've been misbehaving.

— Rachael Stirling