Felicity Jones Quotes

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.

It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.

I rarely meet other young actors.

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

Not many people know my father was an actor. He was the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver!,' and was in a film called 'Frauds,' too. It's interesting talking to him about acting, how much you can get turned down, and how not to take that as a discouragement. It's nice to have that element to relate to for us both.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

It's the life of an actor to always be questioning, always be wondering. There is no occupation in the world less dependable.

As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L'Oreal.

As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.