Character Quote by Jessica Brown Findlay

“What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.”

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I don't know if I'm so righteous.

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The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

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Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

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I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

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I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

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I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

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