escapethenest:

As an actor you continually see the ridiculous additional pressures heaped on actresses to “look right” when actually what the camera sees when it spies the “great actress” — what distinguishes them, and indeed the “great woman”, from her peers — is not on the surface at all. It is what illuminates the love-light in every man, whether he knows it or not. It’s that little spark behind the eyes; an intellectual curiosity, an erotic imagination — and just maybe a knowledge of early Nineties indie and dance music.

- Dan Stevens (reviewing Caitlin Moran’s book How to be a Woman for The Times)