Top 35 Felicity Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Always, my mother said, “Be yourself.” That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.”

— Felicity Jones

2. “Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It’s been a case of learning on the job. I’ve worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I’ve picked bits up from everyone and everything.”

— Felicity Jones

3. “A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it’s obviously something I’m fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It’s what I would naturally be doing anyway.”

— Felicity Jones

4. “My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It’s supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.”

— Felicity Jones

5. “I would describe my look as ’ladylike rock chick.”

— Felicity Jones

6. “I don’t have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.”

— Felicity Jones

7. “I’m too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn’t get a lot of exercise.”

— Felicity Jones

8. “It’s nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.”

— Felicity Jones

9. “Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.”

— Felicity Jones

10. “Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don’t care, that’s a decision. There’s something you’re trying to say.”

— Felicity Jones

11. “I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.”

— Felicity Jones

12. “As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.”

— Felicity Jones

13. “I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.”

— Felicity Jones

14. “I’m more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.”

— Felicity Jones

15. “I’m not a huge jewelry fan.”

— Felicity Jones

16. “There’s such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it’s like putting on a play or short film.”

— Felicity Jones

17. “You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It’s difficult, because there’s a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.”

— Felicity Jones

18. “Of everything I have done, ‘The Archers’ always gets the most excitement; there’s a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.”

— Felicity Jones

19. “I think that when something happens when you’re growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren’t as straightforward.”

— Felicity Jones

20. “I think, as an actor, you’re always traveling. There’s a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.”

— Felicity Jones

21. “I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It’s hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.”

— Felicity Jones

22. “When you’re a young actor, there’s this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I’d prefer to take my time.”

— Felicity Jones

23. “I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.”

— Felicity Jones

24. “I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.”

— Felicity Jones

25. “I’ve done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there’s a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!”

— Felicity Jones

26. “It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.”

— Felicity Jones

27. “There’s so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you’d be naive if you didn’t try to hold on to your own way of doing things.”

— Felicity Jones

28. “The more you work, the more people can see that you’re something different from what’s come before.”

— Felicity Jones

29. “I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.”

— Felicity Jones

30. “I’m a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.”

— Felicity Jones

31. “I’m very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself – and I think that comes from my mother.”

— Felicity Jones

32. “The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.”

— Felicity Jones

33. “I’ve never done a superhero movie. It’s very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.”

— Felicity Jones

34. “I’m attracted to playing people who aren’t necessarily straightforward.”

— Felicity Jones

35. “When you’re believing in the person that you’re playing, you feel protected. It’s about being true to that person you’re playing.”

— Felicity Jones

36. “I guess I’m a bit of a romantic.”

— Felicity Jones

37. “I don’t like when I look too cluttered.”

— Felicity Jones