Carey Mulligan Quotes

I want to be in 'Glee,' but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

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

Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.

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

If you're walking down the street in L.A., people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.

I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.

It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.

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

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?

It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

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 try coke if I had to play a character who took coke.

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

I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well.

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

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. I just want to play a really interesting character.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

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

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

When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier.

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

With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.

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

Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.

I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.