Yasmin Paige Quotes

I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.

I'm too sensitive. I could not show up to a murder scene and do anything like that. It would break me instantly.

I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.

I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.

I didn't know I wanted to be actor when I was four.I did it at the beginning because my brother did it before me and it was a hobby. I didn't mind doing it. But then it got more serious.

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that.

I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.

I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.

Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.

I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

When you do children's TV or one episode [guest] stuff, you have to listen, which is also a great thing to learn. But you don't have individual input.

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.