Hayley Atwell Quotes

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

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.

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 camera and whispered, essentially.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

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.

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.

I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.

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 in.

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.

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

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.

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.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

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.