Karen Gillan Quotes

Karen Gillan is a Scottish actress, director, screenwriter and model. She played the role of Amy Pond, companion to the Eleventh Doctor, in the BBC One science fiction series Doctor Who . She has received wide recognition for portraying Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy , Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 , Avengers: Infinity War and its untitled sequel and also played Ruby Roundhouse in the box-office hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle .

In 2018, she released her first featured film as a writer and director, titled The Party's Just Beginning.

✵ 28. November 1987
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Famous Karen Gillan Quotes

“I was a little worried that I was going to look like an overgrown fetus … Maybe that’s true. But it’s liberating. It’s very liberating. Everyone here should shave their heads.”

On shaving her head for her role in Guardians of the Galaxy as Nebula, in "Comic-Con: Marvel’s ‘Age of Ultron,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ more" in The Los Angeles Times (20 July 2013) http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/comic-con-marvels-age-of-ultron-guardians-of-the-galaxy-more/#/0

“I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating.”

On at first being relaxed in her auditions for the role of Amy Pond, thinking she "hadn't a hope in hell" of getting the part, as quoted in "Karen Gillan: Meet Doctor Who's new assistant" in The Guardian (14 March 2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/14/karen-gillan-doctor-who
Context: I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.

“He's just really unlikely as a hero — which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.”

On the Doctor in Doctor Who Rewind (2011) by BBC America

“I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.”

When asked if she is "legitimately Scottish" in Interview with Karen Gillan from Doctor Who (15 April 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU1bFXTpgPM

“I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes.”

Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
When asked if she is "legitimately Scottish" in Interview with Karen Gillan from Doctor Who (15 April 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU1bFXTpgPM

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