Top 40 Lily James Quotes

My mum thinks I’m amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.

It took me a while to warm to the ’20s costumes on ‘Downton.’ I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, ‘We’re equal to men!’

‘Cinderella‘ touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

I think Keira Knightley is amazing, and I’ve heard also that she is one of the coolest, most down-to-earth, brilliant girls, and I really look up to her in that respect. She’s got it all, really, and I think she’s made interesting, bold choices in her work.

I played Nina in ‘The Seagull,’ and I remember thinking it’s incredible to see all the actresses in the past that’ve played her. It’s quite strengthening. You feel a part of the family of actresses going through and giving something of themselves to the role.

I have an amazing stylist; she’s called Rebecca Corbin Murray… I go around to her living room, and it’s sort of exploding with dresses, and we go through them all, and she’s so good at picking things she knows I’ll like, and we work together. She’s taught me absolutely everything; she’s brilliant.

When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.

I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye – who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I’ve always felt like one.

The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

I naturally have a really small waist.

I love singing so much. As a kid, that was what I wanted to do.

God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.

You are what you’re portrayed as.

I love London, but I love traveling, and I don’t think I’ll be here forever. Possibly, I’d like to move to New York and do a play in New York.

People talk a lot about, ‘You’re a Disney princess! You’re Cinderella!’ and this and that. But for me, it’s all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That’s the ‘Cinderella’ story for me.

I love clothes but it’s a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.

There’s nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.

To be honest, when I was growing up – I think it’s because of Kate Winslet and ‘Titanic‘ – I always wanted to do period.

When I worked with Bill Nighy on ‘Wrath of the Titans,’ he said to me, ‘There’s one thing you can promise me, and that’s never, ever, ever read your reviews.’

It’s hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn’t bear the thought of not coming first.

The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.

I think our sense as actors of what we’ve just done – whether or not it be in an audition – is usually really not connected to any truth. I’m always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

I think it’s probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up – it’s really not that bad once you start.

I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.

At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they’ll come true, but I didn’t do that.

I love putting on a red lip. I don’t do it so much for events – somehow, I don’t seem to get it right – but when I just go to the pub or to a restaurant or something, I just put a red lip on.

As cynical as I can be, there’s always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I’ve learned that that stuff isn’t real, and it doesn’t exist unless you look at it.

I want to be Ursula in ‘The Little Mermaid.’

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

I don’t like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

I really have been lucky because I’ve always had a very healthy attitude to my body.