Top 35 Quotes by Kelly Reilly

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

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.

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 temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

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.