Talulah Riley Quotations

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.