“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
“It’s exciting not knowing what tomorrow, or the next month, or the next year holds.”
― Lucy Boynton
“I want to act every second of every day.”
― Lucy Boynton
“As soon as we stop trying to put boxes and labels to every relationship and dynamic, we’ll be so much more liberated and at peace.”
― Lucy Boynton
“I’ve been every hair color under the sun for different projects.”
― Lucy Boynton
“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
“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
“I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I’m working as hard as I can.”
― Lucy Boynton
“Comedy kind of terrifies me. I feel pretty intimidated.”
― 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Oh, my God, I would be the most uncool band member, ever.”
― 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
“Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.”
― Lucy Boynton
“My skin’s rather difficult to fix, and I’m incredibly sensitive.”
― Lucy Boynton
“I’ve been acting for a long time – I started when I was 12.”
― 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
“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 find that I’m quite experimental. I’m drawn to the brighter and weirder things.”
― 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
“Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.”
― Lucy Boynton
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I’ve always been really terrible with horror films. I scare really easily and can’t stand all the violence and gore.”
― Lucy Boynton
“I never went to drama school, but I was really lucky in that both my junior school and secondary school had brilliant drama departments.”
― 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
“My absolute favorite film is Hal Ashby’s ‘Harold and Maude.’”
― 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
“Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!”
― Lucy Boynton
“I don’t think I’ve done anything quite like ‘Gypsy’ before. Especially the honest way that it is written.”
― Lucy Boynton
“’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
“I’m a very private person.”
― Lucy Boynton
“I’ve been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you’re 23.”
― Lucy Boynton
“I thrive on that nomadic lifestyle.”
― Lucy Boynton
“It’s impossible not to be aware of the Ryan Murphy empire, but he is so kind and funny, and you feel in such safe hands every day.”
― Lucy Boynton
“Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a ‘take what comes, do what I’m told’ approach.”
― Lucy Boynton
“’Sing Street’ was the first time I’d worked so collaboratively.”
― Lucy Boynton
“I’m quite tentative when it comes to biopics because they cross a line into intrusiveness or exposing someone who isn’t alive or around to draw a line or defend themselves.”
― Lucy Boynton
“There is something daunting about getting a role you didn’t formally audition for, another weight of needing to prove yourself.”
― Lucy Boynton
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