Ruth Wilson Quotes

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

I admire the brazen qualities in people.

I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

I'm not very good at lying.

I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like.

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

It's how you prioritize in life.

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

I'd love to direct again.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.