Top 30 Gemma Arterton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m always listening to music; I can’t live without it.”

— Gemma Arterton

2. “Sometimes, I feel that if you’re a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.”

— Gemma Arterton

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3. “I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.”

— Gemma Arterton

4. “I was born with six fingers on each hand.”

— Gemma Arterton

5. “I’ve never understood people that sleep around. I think there’s something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.”

— Gemma Arterton

6. “I was quite naughty at school.”

— Gemma Arterton

7. “When I go home, everyone’s very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it’s in a really sweet way. They’re just very proud and supportive.”

— Gemma Arterton

8. “I’ve done about four deaths in films now, and I think it’s quite good because then it’s sort of a memorable moment in the film.”

— Gemma Arterton

9. “I wouldn’t change a thing in my own life, but I’d like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I’d lived in – like the ’60s. I’d love to have been in London in the ’60s, partying away.”

— Gemma Arterton

10. “I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It’s softened up a bit.”

— Gemma Arterton

11. “I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.”

— Gemma Arterton

12. “I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn’t too nervous and I was being myself.”

— Gemma Arterton

13. “I’m quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you’re in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way...”

— Gemma Arterton

14. “I was born with lots of deformities.”

— Gemma Arterton

15. “I probably should get a bit more star-struck but I never do.”

— Gemma Arterton

16. “I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I’ll play a rock star, or punk rocker.”

— Gemma Arterton

17. “Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.”

— Gemma Arterton

18. “When I watch myself in movies I go, ‘My God.’”

— Gemma Arterton

19. “Never in my short career, I’ve never had that experience where I wasn’t sure if I was acting or if it was real.”

— Gemma Arterton

20. “I don’t want to be about the way I look – my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.”

— Gemma Arterton

21. “I’ve never been to the opera; I’ve only seen opera on DVD.”

— Gemma Arterton

22. “I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.”

— Gemma Arterton

23. “There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it’s going to affect you. You’re going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.”

— Gemma Arterton

24. “My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.”

— Gemma Arterton

25. “You can’t connect with something you’re not passionate about.”

— Gemma Arterton

26. “My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I’m very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I’d save it for like five months. And then I’d spend it on Christmas presents. I’d save up like eight pounds. It’s nothing, but we did that.”

— Gemma Arterton

27. “It’s interesting for me to always make myself look very different.”

— Gemma Arterton

28. “Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.”

— Gemma Arterton

29. “I don’t go out and go to parties and do all of that.”

— Gemma Arterton

30. “I’ve nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don’t want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.”

— Gemma Arterton

31. “I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!”

— Gemma Arterton

32. “My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn’t very into films.”

— Gemma Arterton

33. “I don’t know why it’s still a taboo to be a feminist.”

— Gemma Arterton