English Actress Quotations | Page 2

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

As soon as you have one, all those dormant maternal instincts start popping out all over you, like German measles.

As soon as I saw the play I knew I wanted to play Flora. I fell for-it goes for the guts of an emotion but isn't at all sentimental.

I used to wish I was recognised more as somebody who was bringing up a kid by myself. Underneath, I'm as bluestocking as the rest of them.

The way, I think, anything has ever really changed on this planet is through large groups of very ordinary people saying something finally.

I've only just started to think that I can make a career out of this. At the end of my time in Brookside, I wondered if I'd ever work again.

The thing about not reading scripts and my wanting a director to tell me a story is a risk I need to take. I need that real fear.

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

I've never been to a live match but now having made this film I'm going to - I'm going to Real Madrid so it'll be done with a bang!

I wanted to do something artistic with my life but I didn't think I wanted to be an actor, so I went to university and majored in English literature.

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

So we had this moment with the fly, and we all thought: 'Well, you can't hope to direct a fly. If it walks around a bit, that will be enough.'

Although they originally thought of music as a hobby for me, they were both very supportive when they saw that I could actually make money at it.

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

It's pretty much the best original screenplay I've ever read, for a start. Then there's the team - they're a fantastic group of people.

It's placing your words carefully, and keeping everything nice, kind of hidden behind a smile. People don't want to see your insecurities here.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

At times, I couldn't understand what I was doing. I just knew I needed to stick with it. It was instinct, and that's what I've always relied upon.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

I'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking.

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

In truth I don't think when Landis wrote An American Werewolf he ever wrote it in terms as having an ongoing story, he wrote it as a complete piece.

In the late Sixties a record producer was a more hands-on person. A record producer was often a skilled music arranger or an engineer or both.

I had done theater at school and really enjoyed it. I got a whiff of that sense of excitement that goes with it when I did school plays.

But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

But I am completely confused in a room full of people. I don't hear a word anybody says. I'm not able to enjoy parties for that reason.

I don't really like using my own voice.

Because of double hip replacements, I don't play regular golf, but we do lots of putting with delightful people. It's most enjoyable.

I can pretty much tell the whole story through my eyes. Some of the best actors that you watch don't have to physically do too much.

The idea of getting married just to make it socially acceptable and then maybe getting divorced later on seems a creepy way to behave.

The character was so desperate herself that she related to all those singers. I particularly like those singers. They were my favorites.

The first thing that I do for a character is choose the voice. I try and think of someone that I know that's like that. And then just work around.