Top 33 Sophie Rundle Quotes

I don’t know. I feel really lucky. I’ve just got work in the way that I really enjoy working. That’s not too much fuss. Just getting up and going on set every day.

I’m fascinated by female relationships.

I’m fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

I love a period drama – the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you‘re playing.

As a woman, you’re expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that’s not right for everybody.

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

Filming ‘Jamestown’ in Budapest for six months felt like summer camp. There was a lovely cast of 16 actors, and we got along so well.

That’s something I’ve been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It’s important we have women at the front and centre.

I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you’re chatting to a cabbie, and they don’t know you’re an actor, I cringe because it’s always coupled with the inevitable, ‘So, what have I seen you in?’ And you’re left reciting your CV.

I think, in a comedy, it’s easy to play people as very two-dimensional. But what is enjoyable to watch is seeing a more fully rounded person.

It’s the reason I love doing TV – revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

I rarely get recognised. Almost never.

Loyalty, support, and ‘the sisterhood‘ are there in spades in ‘Jamestown.’

I’m always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I’m doing.

I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling… that’s my inner spirit animal.

I don’t think I look like I do on the telly.

I’d always wanted to act – since I starred in ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ as a girl, that was it.

The joys of making a comedy are that it feels very playful and silly, and the energy is totally different because they want you to feel free enough to come out with something a bit mad.

I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

It’s ridiculous, the people I get to work with.

All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn’t commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.

You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.

It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.

So often, when you’re an actor, you’re told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is, at best, tolerated and, at worst, not wanted.

I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.

My mum and dad aren’t actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

I think that we’re starting to allow ourselves to imagine that gender doesn’t have to be binary, sexuality doesn’t have to be binary, and you are allowed to choose who you love, how you behave, and how you dress.

As a family, we’d watch films and talk about people on screen – what was good or bad and whether you believed them and their stories. I loved that.

I’ve never had a mental break-down, where I’ve grappled with my own sense of religion, but I’ve definitely had my heart broken and fancied people I probably shouldn’t have fancied and all that stuff.

I haven‘t just been swanning around Hollywood, you know.

I’ve done shows before where it’s supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn’t.

Some of my best friends now are from drama club.

If we don’t start representing women properly on screen now, we’re never going to change our opinion of them as a society.