Tilda Swinton Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

I felt clearly that the atmosphere of the film is about loneliness, and existentialist loneliness - in all the characters, including my own.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

I've always been interested in the existentialist movement. Alexander Trocchi is an important figure for us Scots.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

It's pretty much the best original screenplay I've ever read, for a start. Then there's the team - they're a fantastic group of people.

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

She's in the sort of classic proletarian trap of isolation for a woman. And she has absolutely no one - who can she talk to?

She's not a talker, or an intellectual, and she's a woman at a certain stage of her life who's already made a certain amount of choices.

So we had this moment with the fly, and we all thought: 'Well, you can't hope to direct a fly. If it walks around a bit, that will be enough.'

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

Wherever we're working, even if we're working in McDonald's. How possible is it to actually make something authentic?

Some of the smartest women in the country said that they're too embarrassed to attend their reunions at Harvard Business School if they have dropped out of the work force, left the fast track by choosing part-time work, or decided to follow anything other than the standard male career path.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Trivia

Tilda's husband John also had a small role in Orlando in which Tilda appaers as the main character.

On her days off from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, she could be seen on-set, offering encouragement to her young co-stars.

Functions as the muse and mascot of Dutch haute-couture fashion designers Viktor and Rolf.

Tilda lives an hour north of Inverness in Scotland, with her husband, John Byrne and their 2 children, Xavier and Honor.

In 1988, Tilda won a Teddy Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2001, Tilda won the BSFC Award for Best Actress for: The Deep End (2001). In 2004, Tilda won a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress in a Scottish Film for: Young Adam (2003).

Tilda recorded an audiobook adaptation of one of her best known roles: Orlando.

Tilda attended West Heath, a girls' boarding school at one point in her childhood. Princess Diana attended the same school at the same time as Tilda.

Tilda's father was a Major-General and former head of the Queen's Household Division. She spent most of her childhood in Germany since her father was posted there.

Tilda's nickname is "Swilda."