Holliday Grainger Quotes

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

- Holliday Grainger

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

- Holliday Grainger

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls.

- Holliday Grainger

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

- Holliday Grainger

I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.

- Holliday Grainger

I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.

- Holliday Grainger

I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.

- Holliday Grainger

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

- Holliday Grainger

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

- Holliday Grainger

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well. I'd love to be able to do a mixture.

- Holliday Grainger

'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

- Holliday Grainger

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

- Holliday Grainger

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

- Holliday Grainger

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

- Holliday Grainger

As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

- Holliday Grainger

Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.

- Holliday Grainger

I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.

- Holliday Grainger

I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.

- Holliday Grainger

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

- Holliday Grainger

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

- Holliday Grainger

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

- Holliday Grainger

I'm developing a little crush on Michael Fassbender. Really unoriginal.

- Holliday Grainger

I'd love to do more independent films.

- Holliday Grainger