Quotes from Jessie Buckley

I'm quite glad about having a few craggy edges to myself.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

I just know that making 'Beast' was an amazing experience. It was my first feature, it was the director's first feature, and every day, you're just trying to do good work and learn.

I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

I am such a gypsy.

I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.

Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I'm always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.

I remember hearing that when Judi Dench was starting out at the Old Vic, she used to stand by the side of the stage watching the actors around her, and I can see why: That is where you really learn!

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.

It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.

Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.

My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn't really know: an inner fighter in me.

I get asked a lot about being a woman within the industry and how difficult it is, and yeah, it is - but it's difficult for everybody... I'm not a 'burn-your-bra' feminist.

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

I've been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.

Tom Hardy is such a good egg. He's a total teddy bear. He loves his dogs and his kids. He's a true artist. But he's a lovely, naughty, funny man.

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.

You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.

Filming a story set in a war zone in the '60s was such a treat, as it gave me so much scope to dive into.

Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

I love London, but I miss air; I miss space. My dream is to find a mountain where I can live.