Jessica Kelly Siobhán Reillyis an English actress. Her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse made her a star of the London stage and earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress of 2003... (wikipedia)
It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.
My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.
You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.
Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.
Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.
Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.
My dad is such a good man, hard-working.
At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.
I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.
The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses... It doesn't get better than that.
You know, I really enjoy longevity. I see actors in their forties and they just turn out these really fabulous roles and characters. You know who they are, but you wouldn't necessarily know their names.
Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.
There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
Acting has always been such escapism for me.
As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.
Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.
I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?
I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.
I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.
I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.
I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.
I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.
I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.
I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.
Maureen isn't based on a real person. She's a completely fictional creation, though some of the girls probably went through the same sort of things. Maureen just sort of absorbs all the bad stuff. She's the sort of person that everything happens to, poor thing.
I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.
Lauren' should be an adjective in itself. She's her own kind of person.
Our team is finally bonding. We're getting a lot of chemistry as players. We're becoming a team. We knew that we had a lot of potential with very talented players.
You know when the ball is kicked and you know that's where you should've been. I was there. No matter how tired I was, I was able to run that extra step.
I started freaking out before it went in. If it hadn't gone in, I would have been a little bit embarrassed.
It's nothing serious. It's sort of hard to be very serious with your clothes off.
It's our burden, always coming back from one down. It takes a lot of character, and our team has pushed through a lot. We're a fairly young team with first-time varsity girls. Everyone had to step up. I'm really proud.
I'm done for the season. I can't walk for four days and I'm on crutches.
I'm excited to go to college, but it's bittersweet because I'm going to miss all of these girls. It's more special because you remember this is your last game. You want to win for yourself and your fellow seniors as well as the girls who are going to follow in your footsteps.
In a game like this, I figured that the one lucky break could help a team push through at the end. I think we played with a lot of heart and took care of the little things. We wanted to do everything possible to get a win.
I feel like I want to fix what went wrong last year. Last year we felt like we let the seniors down. This year, I want to win it for the younger players.
My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.
Every job feels like my first.
When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.
When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.
Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.
The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.
I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.
I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.
Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.