My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

Hayley Atwell

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

Hayley Atwell

Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

Hayley Atwell

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

Hayley Atwell

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

Hayley Atwell

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

Hayley Atwell

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

Hayley Atwell

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

Hayley Atwell

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

Hayley Atwell

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

Hayley Atwell

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Hayley Atwell

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

Hayley Atwell

I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.

Hayley Atwell

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

Hayley Atwell

Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

Hayley Atwell

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

Hayley Atwell

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

Hayley Atwell

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

Hayley Atwell

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

Hayley Atwell

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

Hayley Atwell

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

Hayley Atwell