JOANNA KULIG

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

I love 'The Godfather.'

My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of cancer. I remember in the middle of shooting going, 'Oh my God! Why did I decide to do this?' But people noticed me in it and I started getting invited to castings.

I was 6 when communism was finished.

I grew up in a small village outside of Krakow, and when I was small we had only a small television, and we had only one and two programs. I remember it was black and white. And I loved to watch Charlie Chaplin. I was so small, but I remember his movement.

I think that the two worlds of fashion and acting world have a lot of common things, because we all build a character.

Sometimes I like to be more simple - simple colours, to be completely empty.

An actor must take care of her health.

Music was my first love; acting was something that wasn't important to me early on.

I'm open. I like new experiences in life and new cultures.

Being from the countryside gave me a spine, and it's why I'm so accepting - I don't judge people for how they look or how they talk... I just accept everyone.

You can't really plan with acting!

On television, I love 'The Crown,' and 'The Affair' is so psychological.

I like being in groups rather than alone - I'm very open to people.

My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come. You had to be ready.

When we are older we are very smart, but when we are younger we don't think we are happy, we have all of life ahead of us.

When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.

I'm not a professional dancer.

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn't want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn't want me. And I start to think, 'I have to do something.' In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.

Anyone can fall in love.

My experience with the National Theatre in Kracow often involved many changes of storyline and character. This was particularly useful when working with a director such as Pawel Pawlikowski who is quite intuitive and demands flexibility in an actor.

Poland is a country of strong women.

When I was small - I grew up in a village outside of Krakow - my brothers and sisters and I would play folk instruments and make music in our home.

I like the French kind of style because it's simple and minimal. I have blonde hair and big lips, and when I do too much I think sometimes I don't look very well, you know?