I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

- Gemma Arterton

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

- Gemma Arterton

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

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

- Gemma Arterton

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

- Gemma Arterton

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

- Gemma Arterton

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

- Gemma Arterton

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

- Gemma Arterton

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

- Gemma Arterton

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

- Gemma Arterton

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

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

- Gemma Arterton

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

- Gemma Arterton

I was born with lots of deformities.

- Gemma Arterton

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

- Gemma Arterton

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

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

- Gemma Arterton

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

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

- Gemma Arterton

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

- Gemma Arterton