Lily James
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Biography
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series Just William (2010).
"Drama school was a lifeline for me. I found it very nurturing – I just clung on."
"Your imagination can limit you because you're controlling it. Your idea of what it should be can actually be holding you back."
"Happiness doesn't mean what you think is going to make you happy. It is so constantly in flux and so hard to achieve. That's the mystery behind it."
"We are trying always to be happy, but unhappiness is just as real, just as important an emotion. And if you are closing yourself off from it, you are closing yourself off from other people."
"You have to let everything affect you, everything hit your nerves, so you can perform. So it feels as if you’re constantly trying to guard yourself or let people in, put walls up or break them down."
"I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start."
"I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body."
"Diet Coke is the only way I get through filming because I get so tired."
"It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice."
"At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they'll come true, but I didn't do that."
"The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine."
"I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out."
"I loved learning to fight and kill zombies."
"I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it's natural to be a good person, and kind, but I'm learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days."
"I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times."
"It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing."
"You know that scene in 'Runaway Bride' when Julia Roberts puts on the amazing wedding dress and looks at herself in the mirror and goes, 'Swish, swish'? I loved that moment so much when I was a little girl."