Millie Bobby Brown

The thing is, I get asked when I first knew I wanted to act so often, and I genuinely can’t answer it. It’s just… I got the bug, and that’s it.

I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’

I love the ’80s. I’m obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.

It’s nice having famous people love you.

I’d probably say I’m very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever.

I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I want to know the answer.

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

I was a mostly happy child, though I had a pretty rough puberty. Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it’s good to grow up that way. It builds character.

I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head – like it’s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I’m going to be tough. It’s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

I’m not always the first person to run out and see something I’m in. I don’t know; for me, that’s not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don’t really think about the end result. I don’t feel like I have to see it – for me, it already happened.

If you keep running, you’ll get something.

My first kiss was when I was 12.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

I couldn’t live without my music, man. Or me mum.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else’s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.

I keep forgetting I’m speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It’s really strange; I’ve never done a job in an American accent before.