Quotes from Vanessa Kirby

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'

I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.

I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.

As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

I hate the idea of massive fame. I think the scariest thing for an actor is when your name becomes bigger than your craft or what you can do.

Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.

Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.

I've been told that I have no filter.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

Love whoever you want to love.

That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

It's quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.

I don't see the point of grumpy people.

We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.

Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.