Quotes from Phoebe Fox

I like Shakespeare, but it's not my bread and butter. It's not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of the ingenue parts leave a lot to be desired, in my opinion.

I haven't seen a lot of horror because I'm ridiculously sensitive and I get scared really easily.

I'd be happy just to do theatre work but it can't pay the bills.

The French are so phenomenally, casually chic!

Sight by Jessie Greengrass was put up on Instagram by an acquaintance, so no one actually recommended it to me personally and yet it had a profound effect on me. The book deals with the conflicting emotions brought to the surface when you are deep in the throes of your 'child-bearing' years.

Women who are clever actresses have longevity because they're amazing actors, not because the camera loves them.

I get told I have a 'period' face quite often. Maybe it's the pale skin but I get a lot of pre-Forties posh roles.

I went to see 'The Babadook' at the cinema. Even as I was walking there, I was thinking, 'What the hell am I doing here?' Before I would never have seen something that had a poster proclaiming it was shockingly scary or 'You won't sleep at night.' But I paid money and really enjoyed it.

A corset is always challenging.

2020 has been crap.

I like to do the whole gamut of emotions on stage - big crying, shouting, hair-pulling.

I was obsessed with 'The Swish of the Curtain' by Pamela Brown when I was a child. It's about a group of kids who create their own Amateur Theatre company. I was already absolute in my decision to be an actor by this point, but if anything, it confirmed to me that I was on the right path.

Even if people pretend that they're OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.

My dad's an amazing carpenter and he does painting and decorating.

I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.

People just need to go back to the ancient crafts. We should teach people to do whittling at school, or knitting.

The goalposts are still very different. As an actress, you have to earn people's respect, be professional, turn up on time. Whereas guys can get away with a lot and pass off bad behaviour as, 'Oh, he's so method!'

My first play was 'A Month in the Country' at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Because we have more women in power now, frankly we are less likely to go to war. It's not in our nature really.

The energy that you expend making yourself look frightened and feeling frightened is just as hard as crying and shouting and all the other extremities of emotion.

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

I mean, I'd love to see 'The Woman in Black' in the Nineties on the rave scene!

The period characters I have played have all been these wonderfully forward-thinking women.

I wouldn't want to take a job that I got tied into for six years - that just doesn't interest me.