English Quotes

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

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

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.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.