Quotes from Phoebe Fox

Christopher Walken would make a bed time story pretty interesting I reckon.

You have to be able to hold up a mirror to your personality at drama school and recognise the flaws. That's hard to do as a 17-year-old. But it's easier to cope with when you're a little bit older.

My first scene ever on camera was a dinner scene and I ate all the food. They yelled cut and the actor across from me was like, 'You know you're going to have to eat the same thing every single time.' I learned the hard way.

I love the way Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made the first-ever feminist Golden Globes.

I read somewhere that it's scientifically proven that kids who read 'Harry Potter' grow up to be more well balanced and tolerant when they're older.

It's refreshing to tell a story from a woman's point of view which says it's normal not to want kids.

I definitely don't think I could be in an open relationship.

I have quite a dry sense of humour. It comes out when I'm feeling nervous.

I would love to see an adaptation of 'Less' by Andrew Sean Greer. It has all the things I want in a film; love, travel, humour.

I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and about being active. I sometimes do a bit of yoga but I find it hard to get motivated for any kind of physical exercise.

My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years. I applied while I was still at school in my final year, and I didn't get in anywhere, so I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

I had horrendous teeth. I had 10 years of orthodontist treatment, everything you can think of.

I have been very lucky, because I have quite an innocent face and a lot of people are looking for a character who is tough and yet soft and slightly girly. That's why they call me up.

When you are the lead, you feel that if you mess it up the whole film can fall around you.

My first filming job was one of the first episodes of 'Black Mirror,' before anyone knew what that was going to be. It was this mad project with some great people behind it - and now it's 'Black Mirror!' It was sort of baptism by fire.

I think most women are sitting on all this rage we've never been allowed to express. It's an emotion that I think that people find quite unattractive in women which is why you don't see it very often.

My parents had multiple jobs.

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

I remember my parents were always around, and that was glorious, but as an adult and as an actor I look back now and see, no, they were at home for long stints because they were unemployed.

I don't tend to re-read things, but never say never.

There are centuries worth of conditioning telling us that the thing that gives women status or importance is beauty.

I know the fact I've worked continuously since drama school means I fit a stereotype - the ingenue.

Why is it so unusual to see someone who's not a size eight on screen?

It's incredibly frustrating to constantly read scripts where you're the girlfriend who is there to further the man's storyline.