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Felicity Jones

English actress

89+ Felicity Jones Quotes On Friendship, Music And Preaching

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Felicity Jones is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in films such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Theory of Everything, and Inferno. She has also appeared in television series such as The Amazing Spider-Man, The Worst Witch, and Servant. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Felicity Jones on love, friendship, music.

Born
October 17, 1983
Died
April 2, 2013
Known as
English Actress

Top 10 Felicity Jones Quotes

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    Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.
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    I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.
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    I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.
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    Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.
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    I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.
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    I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.
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    I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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    I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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    As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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    I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.
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Felicity Jones Short Quotes

  • I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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  • Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.
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  • Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.
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  • I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.
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  • I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible.
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  • I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.
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  • Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.
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  • I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.
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  • In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.
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  • I always had a very strong sense of independence.
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Felicity Jones Quotes About Love

  • I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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  • I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.
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  • I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.
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  • The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!
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  • I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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  • "The Invisible Woman" was about trying to show this conflict in [Nelly Ternan] woman truthfully, between her own identity, but also being in love with someone who I think made very high demands from her.
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  • The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.
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  • I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.
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  • I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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  • I love not having to rely on anyone.
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Felicity Jones Famous Quotes And Sayings

  • When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
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  • But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.
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  • You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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  • I hate it when, in films, the girl looks perfect in every shot. It's quite nice if there's a bit of dark circles underneath the eyes, if we see the reality of the situation that the person is going through.
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  • Now we live in a time where the public and the private are completely fused and there isn't such a great distinction. We know our private lives are constantly made public. With Facebook and Twitter there isn't such a desire, it feels, to keep things private.
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  • We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.
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  • I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible. I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends. I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.
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  • I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.
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  • I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.
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  • I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."
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  • My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.
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  • "The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have this conflict both on a domestic level between a couple in a difficult situation but also this bigger conflict of science versus religion, so it's a really fascinating project.
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  • I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking - it's based on her book about their relationship.That's what the film will be about - they were both incredible, strong, willful individuals and I feel like that Stephen Hawking himself would say that he wouldn't have survived without the influence of Jane Hawking, and they were an incredible team together.
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  • I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting.
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  • I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
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  • I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."
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  • I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.
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  • I think I actually did a production of "Under Milkwood," this Welsh play, with my drama group (at school), and I always remember taking everything far too seriously, and that it wasn't just a hobby but something I wanted to keep on doing.
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  • [In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.
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  • I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt like a different technique. We were very true to the lines, and there was something quite formal and almost theatrical about it.
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  • What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the boys as well. There's something so human about it.
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  • I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.
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  • It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.
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  • It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.
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  • I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would be ostracized. The rigid societal conventions meant that it was difficult to live outside of them.
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  • I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.
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  • I think Nelly [Ternan] actually has something very conservative about her, and she's very judgmental of (this other character's) situation, and can see that's about to happen to herself. So she judges it even more harshly [because] it's what she fears becoming.
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  • I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.
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  • I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.
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  • I think good things come out of having tension with the people that you work with. You've got to be arguing in order to produce something interesting. If everyone's just agreeing with each other, you're not going to push the boundaries.
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  • The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!
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  • Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.
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  • Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"
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  • I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.
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  • My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."
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  • I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.
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  • My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.
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  • Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.
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  • I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.
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  • I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.
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  • I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.
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  • I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!
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  • When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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  • I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.
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  • I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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  • I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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  • Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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  • I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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  • I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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  • I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
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  • I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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  • But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.
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  • It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.
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  • I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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  • I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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  • The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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  • There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.
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  • A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.
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  • Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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Life Lessons by Felicity Jones

  1. Felicity Jones is an example of how hard work and dedication can lead to success, as she started her career in small roles and worked her way up to leading roles in blockbuster films.
  2. She has also demonstrated the importance of staying true to yourself and not compromising your values, as she has taken on roles that she believes in and that she is passionate about.
  3. Finally, she has shown that it is possible to be successful in the entertainment industry without sacrificing your values or your beliefs.

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