“I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose,...” — Rachael Stirling Quote

“I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.”

“Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.”

“She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.”

“I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.”

“The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.”

“I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.”