Sophie Rundle

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

— Sophie Rundle

You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.

— Sophie Rundle

It's ridiculous, the people I get to work with.

— Sophie Rundle

I haven't just been swanning around Hollywood, you know.

— Sophie Rundle

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

— Sophie Rundle

So often, when you're an actor, you're told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is,…

— Sophie Rundle

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're…

— Sophie Rundle

I don't know. I feel really lucky. I've just got work in the way that I really enjoy working. That's not too…

— Sophie Rundle

As a family, we'd watch films and talk about people on screen - what was good or bad and whether you believed…

— Sophie Rundle

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at…

— Sophie Rundle

As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

— Sophie Rundle

Filming 'Jamestown' in Budapest for six months felt like summer camp. There was a lovely cast of 16 actors, and we got…

— Sophie Rundle

I've never had a mental break-down, where I've grappled with my own sense of religion, but I've definitely had my heart broken…

— Sophie Rundle

I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you're chatting to a cabbie, and they don't know you're an actor, I cringe…

— Sophie Rundle

The joys of making a comedy are that it feels very playful and silly, and the energy is totally different because they…

— Sophie Rundle

We don't see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time.…

— Sophie Rundle

All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her,…

— Sophie Rundle

My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

— Sophie Rundle

It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.

— Sophie Rundle

I rarely get recognised. Almost never.

— Sophie Rundle

I'm fascinated by female relationships.

— Sophie Rundle

Some of my best friends now are from drama club.

— Sophie Rundle

If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

— Sophie Rundle

I think, in a comedy, it's easy to play people as very two-dimensional. But what is enjoyable to watch is seeing a…

— Sophie Rundle

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

— Sophie Rundle

I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of…

— Sophie Rundle

Loyalty, support, and 'the sisterhood' are there in spades in 'Jamestown.'

— Sophie Rundle

I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

— Sophie Rundle

I'd always wanted to act - since I starred in 'Alice in Wonderland' as a girl, that was it.

— Sophie Rundle

I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling... that's my inner spirit animal.

— Sophie Rundle

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit…

— Sophie Rundle

I think that we're starting to allow ourselves to imagine that gender doesn't have to be binary, sexuality doesn't have to be…

— Sophie Rundle

The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned…

— Sophie Rundle

I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been…

— Sophie Rundle

It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

— Sophie Rundle

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

— Sophie Rundle