English Quotes

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

I grew up on a tiny little island.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

Kate Moss is small and not necessarily model dimensions but she has that special something.

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.