An all-girls school, when you have 800 girls from the age of 11 to 18, you would think, should be a prime opportunity to really inject a sense of confidence and power. And instead, we were very much taught in relation to men, in terms of what the brother school would think of us.

Lucy Boynton

As long as you feel good in something, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You'll never regret wearing something you really love.

Lucy Boynton

Love Good You

My absolute favorite film is Hal Ashby's 'Harold and Maude.'

Lucy Boynton

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If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.

Lucy Boynton

Love Yourself Yours

All of our family holidays were always work trips for my parents, so my sister and I would sit somewhere or find a kids' club while my parents would be interviewing people.

Lucy Boynton

Work Family Would

I think 'Ballet Shoes' was a very pivotal role for me. I was about 14 then, and it was an incredible cast: Eileen Atkins, Victoria Wood, Emilia Fox, Harriet Walters. All these incredible women.

Lucy Boynton

Women Men Wood

I am so honoured to be supporting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and their mission making London and our global cities AIDS-free.

Lucy Boynton

Up UN Ton

I don't think I've done anything quite like 'Gypsy' before. Especially the honest way that it is written.

Lucy Boynton

Written Way Think

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

Lucy Boynton

Good Wit Us

I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.

Lucy Boynton

Society Art Your

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

Lucy Boynton

Work Works Very

I remember watching that scene in 'My Girl' where Anna Chlumsky cries at a funeral. I would cry with her and be like, 'Yeah, I think I could do that. I could do a funeral scene.'

Lucy Boynton

Yeah Would Wit

I've always liked higher necklines, and Mia Farrow is my ultimate inspiration. The baby-doll dresses with big Peter Pan collars that she wore in 'Rosemary's Baby' were iconic. I've been drawn to similar looks ever since.

Lucy Boynton

Pet Wore Wit

I've been acting for a long time - I started when I was 12.

Lucy Boynton

Time Art Tin

Oh, my God, I would be the most uncool band member, ever.

Lucy Boynton

God Cool Would

'Gypsy' follows a New York therapist, played by Naomi Watts. It explores the boundaries between patient and doctor - she kind of starts to play puppeteer with her clients.

Lucy Boynton

Pet Art York

My skin's rather difficult to fix, and I'm incredibly sensitive.

Lucy Boynton

T Skin Ski

Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.

Lucy Boynton

Us T Nic

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.

Lucy Boynton

Music Us Tree

It's exciting not knowing what tomorrow, or the next month, or the next year holds.

Lucy Boynton

Year Wing Win

Acting has influenced my approach to beauty in both practical and fun ways as well as influencing my style. I do like to be more adventurous - for some reason, I feel safer in that.

Lucy Boynton

Well Ways Way

Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!

Lucy Boynton

I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he not only has a view of the film as a whole and the intentions of the scene in terms of the audience, he also has an actor's instinct of how to communicate something to us.

Lucy Boynton

I tend to look very different with every role that I do, so I don't know if anybody remembers me or recognizes me at all, including people that I've worked with and know really well.

Lucy Boynton

I don't really have a specific formula I follow to find the right script or role. It's always just very instinctive.

Lucy Boynton

Being part of the Queen story and knowing what Freddie Mercury went through before he died of AIDS has really shown me how far we've come in fighting this disease.

Lucy Boynton

It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.

Lucy Boynton

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

Lucy Boynton

If you're creating your character, you can have full ownership of the emotional range they go through. You can make bolder choices.

Lucy Boynton

My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.

Lucy Boynton

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.

Lucy Boynton

An all-girls school, when you have 800 girls from the age of 11 to 18, you would think, should be a prime opportunity to really inject a sense of confidence and power. And instead, we were very much taught in relation to men, in terms of what the brother school would think of us.

Lucy Boynton

We were always told not to wear skirts that were too short, because what will the male teachers think of you? Or, when we started sharing classes with boys in sixth form, what will they think of you if you are wearing a miniskirt to lessons?

Lucy Boynton

There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.

Lucy Boynton

Comedy kind of terrifies me. I feel pretty intimidated.

Lucy Boynton

My dream would be to be like Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. Her style and everything about her, she's just the coolest human being.

Lucy Boynton

Paul McCartney has always been the love of my life.

Lucy Boynton

My skin gets really dry and stressed from all the traveling I do, so I've had to find reliable products to help that.

Lucy Boynton

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

Lucy Boynton

It was strange doing that transition from teenager to more adult roles, but I think it just makes it more exciting.

Lucy Boynton

I've been every hair color under the sun for different projects.

Lucy Boynton

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

Lucy Boynton

I want to be an actress when I grow up. Actually, I don't want to wait until I'm grown up. I want to be a child actress. I want to be an actress before I'm 13.

Lucy Boynton

I want to act every second of every day.

Lucy Boynton

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

Lucy Boynton

The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.

Lucy Boynton

When you're younger, you have a perfect plan for your life: I thought I would be engaged at 24, married at 26, have my first child at 28 and my second at 30. But as you get closer to each age, you realise it's unfeasible.

Lucy Boynton

I never wanted to take off the pink gown I wore to the 'Gypsy' premiere. It was a magical dress for a magical moment.

Lucy Boynton

For the red carpet, I like a platform heel, but for everyday, it's mostly Converse high-tops or booties with black tights.

Lucy Boynton

When it's a real person, you want to be as honest as you can and approach it in a similar way as you would any other character, but with that restriction and wanting to respect the boundaries of that person and not be intrusive in any way.

Lucy Boynton

When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.

Lucy Boynton