Words to live by: Carey Mulligan

(Photos and quotes via Vogue.com)

"Posing on the red carpet feels like you´re selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it´s like we´re saying, ´Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We´re available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!´"

"I don´t want to be ´known´ - I´m afraid of being a ´personality´. On a talk show, I feel I should just hold up a sign with the facts on it - and leave. It wouldn´t take more than a minute, and they´d have room for other guests. I want people to not recognize me, to think I´m a different actress, not remember me from what I did previously. If people have all those other pictures and stories associated with you, it´s added shit that means they have to work harder to believe you as a character."

"The thinnest I´ve ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn´t work when I´m that thin, so I can´t do my job. That´s why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I´m only 25. I´m not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good."

"I want to get stuff out, go toward whatever it is that makes me spend hours on the Internet, trying to find words that move me."

"I don´t want to bore anybody. I´m not strategic; I´ve never done anything I didn´t want to do."

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