Quotes from Sienna Miller

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

I love cigarettes. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.

You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish.

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

I love my job, I've always loved my job.

I experienced the judgement of a lot of people - and deservedly so.

I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.

I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.