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I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

~Bel Powley

Topics: Alive Female Keep Mean Playing Really Roles Strong Strong Female Superheroes Want Who Women

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I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

~Bel Powley

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I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,' and I suddenly thought, 'It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.' It didn't quite feel right.

~Bel Powley

Topics: Bit Doing Feel Feels Go Going Had History Manchester New New York Place Quite Right Stage Study Study History Suddenly Thought University Weird York

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If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.

~Bel Powley

Topics: About Actor Be Original Been Before Doing Done Got Like Lot Me Millions Millions And Millions More Original Other People Played Pressure Some Something Think Times Tom Try Unbelievably Which Who You

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'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

~Bel Powley

Topics: Accent American American Accent Based Diary First Girl Graphic Labs Movie Novel Play Screenplay Someone Sundance Teenage Teenage Girl Then Turned Which Who Written Wrote

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'70s music is the kind of music I listen to. '70s clothes, I adore.

~Bel Powley

Topics: Adore Clothes Kind Listen Music

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I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.

~Bel Powley

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It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.

~Bel Powley

Topics: Feel Felt Films Growing Growing Up Like Many Me Negative Onscreen Really Roles Say Sounds Teenage Teenager Think Up Watching Were Women I Think

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When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

~Bel Powley

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I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.

~Bel Powley

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actress

Born: March 7th, 1992

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