Cressida Bonas Quotes

If I ever feel like, 'Oh, my life!' or get upset by silly things like a photographer, or if someone has written something nasty that's upset me, I just think, 'Worse things happen at sea.'

- Cressida Bonas

I've lived in Shepherd's Bush for five years with my friend Georgia in a cosy, cluttered flat.

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My older sisters and brother are all amazing beings and inspiring people. They are my best friends and have guided and taught me consistently throughout my life.

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I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music - not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.

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Dancing freely to Fleetwood Mac always makes me happy.

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It was on a trip to Africa with my family - I was eight - and an angry baboon jumped through the window of our parked car. As my siblings escaped, my foot got stuck in the seat. I froze and watched it steal the whole contents of our car around me.

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Martin Joyce is a beautiful dancer and an amazing choreographer. He choreographed the Mulberry dance film I was in, 'From London with Love.' A truly talented man.

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I'm much more confident performing than I am in social situations.

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I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.

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I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.

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I'm a strong, independent woman.

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I'm a lion. I'm not tough, but I am strong. I'm definitely not a wallflower.

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Obviously, I do feel I'm scrutinised a bit too much and people are judging me. All I do is keep my head down and work, work, work.

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I did a postgrad at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

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I'll go out with my friends or if there's something really amazing I've been invited to, but I won't do that all the time because that's not who I am.

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I never got to know my grandparents, and I am envious of my friends who have a special relationship with theirs.

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I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

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