Top 35 Quotes by Kelly Reilly

Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses... It doesn't get better than that.

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.