Quotes from Lucy Boynton

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

My absolute favorite film is Hal Ashby's 'Harold and Maude.'

For the red carpet, I like a platform heel, but for everyday, it's mostly Converse high-tops or booties with black tights.

My dream would be to be like Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. Her style and everything about her, she's just the coolest human being.

An all-girls school, when you have 800 girls from the age of 11 to 18, you would think, should be a prime opportunity to really inject a sense of confidence and power. And instead, we were very much taught in relation to men, in terms of what the brother school would think of us.

I tend to look very different with every role that I do, so I don't know if anybody remembers me or recognizes me at all, including people that I've worked with and know really well.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!

I don't really have a specific formula I follow to find the right script or role. It's always just very instinctive.

I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he not only has a view of the film as a whole and the intentions of the scene in terms of the audience, he also has an actor's instinct of how to communicate something to us.

I don't think I've done anything quite like 'Gypsy' before. Especially the honest way that it is written.

It was strange doing that transition from teenager to more adult roles, but I think it just makes it more exciting.

Comedy kind of terrifies me. I feel pretty intimidated.

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.

'Gypsy' follows a New York therapist, played by Naomi Watts. It explores the boundaries between patient and doctor - she kind of starts to play puppeteer with her clients.

Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.

My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.

My skin gets really dry and stressed from all the traveling I do, so I've had to find reliable products to help that.

We were always told not to wear skirts that were too short, because what will the male teachers think of you? Or, when we started sharing classes with boys in sixth form, what will they think of you if you are wearing a miniskirt to lessons?

I never went to drama school, but I was really lucky in that both my junior school and secondary school had brilliant drama departments.

It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.

When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.