Quotes from Lucy Boynton

I want to act every second of every day.

Paul McCartney has always been the love of my life.

Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.

When it's a real person, you want to be as honest as you can and approach it in a similar way as you would any other character, but with that restriction and wanting to respect the boundaries of that person and not be intrusive in any way.

Acting has influenced my approach to beauty in both practical and fun ways as well as influencing my style. I do like to be more adventurous - for some reason, I feel safer in that.

As long as you feel good in something, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You'll never regret wearing something you really love.

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

I never wanted to take off the pink gown I wore to the 'Gypsy' premiere. It was a magical dress for a magical moment.

I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.

All of our family holidays were always work trips for my parents, so my sister and I would sit somewhere or find a kids' club while my parents would be interviewing people.

I'm a very private person.

I'm quite tentative when it comes to biopics because they cross a line into intrusiveness or exposing someone who isn't alive or around to draw a line or defend themselves.

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

My skin's rather difficult to fix, and I'm incredibly sensitive.

I remember watching that scene in 'My Girl' where Anna Chlumsky cries at a funeral. I would cry with her and be like, 'Yeah, I think I could do that. I could do a funeral scene.'

Being part of the Queen story and knowing what Freddie Mercury went through before he died of AIDS has really shown me how far we've come in fighting this disease.

If you're creating your character, you can have full ownership of the emotional range they go through. You can make bolder choices.

When you're younger, you have a perfect plan for your life: I thought I would be engaged at 24, married at 26, have my first child at 28 and my second at 30. But as you get closer to each age, you realise it's unfeasible.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

I've been every hair color under the sun for different projects.

I think 'Ballet Shoes' was a very pivotal role for me. I was about 14 then, and it was an incredible cast: Eileen Atkins, Victoria Wood, Emilia Fox, Harriet Walters. All these incredible women.

I thrive on that nomadic lifestyle.