Vanessa Kirby

I don't see the point of grumpy people.

As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!

I've been told that I have no filter.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.

Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov... they're masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.

What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

I love the idea of being an Aries.

My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.