English Actress Quotations

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

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

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.

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

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

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

Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

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

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

I always think I am going to do my best.

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Ultimately, I just approached her as a young woman who's pretty screwed up, and I started reading Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

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.

Modeling is one way girls can earn good money and get away from home at the same time. It's very international, so you get the chance to travel.

My job is the same, whether they've got a hundred million or half a million. I go in and I play that character to the best of my ability.

My father and mother were married at the beginning of WWII and did their best to enjoy a few years of wedded bliss before they had me.

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

I have a sort of unspoken principle, which is that I don't want to let it change me so that I treat people badly, or anything like that.

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

I found it hard to get close to my stepfather at first. He began giving me singing lessons when I was about 7 or 8 in an effort to create a bond between us.

I found a face of anguish greeting me.

I don't think we know what we're going to get, so the idea of looking for somebody can make it wrong. Make friends and get a life.

I encourage you all to combine your great services and traditions to support those who have been injured while serving our great nation.

Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

What I mean to say is that I'm old enough now and confident enough now not to be frightened of any of the possibilities life might offer.

Have you ever been to the proper desert? The most extraordinary thing is the silence. There's nothing to move out there. I got such a buzz out of it.

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!

I also like the fact that the character isn't a typical footballer's wife, she doesn't need the bling and being at the forefront of everything.

Last month I spent six months in New York working with Barry Levinson but I didn't want to stay there, I could have but I wanted to come home.

Our cottage is high in the hills, not another house in sight, just some sheep, buzzards, running water and meadows of flowers. It's lovely.

People have begun to look so air-brushed in films. Everything I've done this year has been about showing imperfections, about real people.

People in Hollywood, they're looking for pretty girls, and if you take it seriously enough and work hard enough, you get the Guernsey.

I think if you took charities and NGOs out of the mix, certainly in developing countries, you would find that there would be huge trouble immediately.

I think Silence of the Lambs was a great film and when somebody does that kind of suspense thing, with that much restraint, it's impressive.

I thought it was time to jump into that Hollywood mainstream and see what the temperature was. And it was warmer than I expected.

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word-I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

You know when I look at people, I don't look at them with age at all, I just look at them as people, I never ask how old anyone is.

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

We owned an ancient music roll piano and a cheap guitar, these were my toys and I was encouraged to play and sing whenever the spirit took me.

Why go digital? I come from a breed of musical technicians that couldn't live without getting the latest technology on the market.

To this day I will not be called Steph.

Two of the most basic responsibilities we have on this earth are to put God first in our lives and offer ourselves in service to others.

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.