Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible. Jessica Brown Findlay More Quotes by Jessica Brown Findlay More Quotes From Jessica Brown Findlay You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get. Jessica Brown Findlay dying death thinking I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have. Jessica Brown Findlay ipods endless kind And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to. Jessica Brown Findlay lovely realizing strange When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine. Jessica Brown Findlay realising perfect I've been told I make a very good brew. Jessica Brown Findlay very-good I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play. Jessica Brown Findlay girl play character The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you. Jessica Brown Findlay adore emotion acting Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion. Jessica Brown Findlay emotion art Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play. Jessica Brown Findlay girl play interesting I don't know if I'm so righteous. Jessica Brown Findlay righteous ifs knows There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them. Jessica Brown Findlay skirts reason moving What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do. Jessica Brown Findlay important trying character I am a hopeless romantic. Jessica Brown Findlay hopeless hopeless-romantic I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. Jessica Brown Findlay dancer eight two I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears. Jessica Brown Findlay stealing tears remember I really enjoy auditions anyway because I think that even if you come out of them, and you go in once and it never goes anywhere, there is something that you bring out of it or a note that will come back to your agent and that's the way you learn. Jessica Brown Findlay enjoy thinking My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks. Jessica Brown Findlay icons style people I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself. Jessica Brown Findlay shock mind giving I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money. Jessica Brown Findlay attitude jobs thinking At 17, we all think we know what we're doing. Jessica Brown Findlay knows thinking
