Top 30 Talulah Riley Quotes

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.

Men are visual creatures.

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

Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?

I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you’ve thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

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

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

I didn’t intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn’t what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I’m not going to read all the books before I die.

I have a checklist of things I’d like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor – that’s on my list.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn’t: It was basically a semantics game.

I’ve been an actress for years, and I’ve worked with one female director. Statistically it’s less than 7% or 12% – I mean, it’s low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

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

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

‘Westworld’ is going to be incredible, and the production line is amazing. That was really nice because Lisa Nolan, who is in charge there, is fabulous and is a great example of a woman doing that role. So that was great, and she‘s amazing – an incredible writer and fantastic to work with.

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

There’s a real power in heels and a good dress.

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 parents used to call me ‘The Little Frog,’ because whenever they asked how I knew something, I’d say ‘read it,’ which sounds a bit like a frog croak.

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

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.

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 – an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

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 grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life – I’d get through several books a week.

I don’t drink tea or coffee. I’m like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There’s whole swathes of stuff we can’t account for.

I’m terribly, horribly shy.