“I always say I’m not an actor,” says Tilda Swinton. “For two reasons. Firstly, I’m genuinely not interested in acting, particularly. I don’t know anything about it. I didn’t train. And I’ve heard and read enough proper, real actors talk about acting to know I don’t worship at the same church. So I’d rather say it before they do!”
Source: ‘I was kind of a boy for a long time’: Tilda Swinton on fluidity and her ‘mistaken’ career