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All Quotes by author - Cherie Lunghi
" At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs. "
Beginning
Two
Time
" I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable. "
Vanity
You
I Am
" I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map. "
Live
Father
Strong
" I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it. "
Get
Doing
Botox
" I'd see my daddy about once a month, and I missed him. I would have loved to have had more of him. He was tall, attractive and very quiet, very gentle. He had a wife who I don't think ever really liked me much. "
Quiet
Wife
Loved
" I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. "
Art
Book
Good
" I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher. "
Television
Political
Used
" I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress. "
School
Home
Living
" I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself. "
Day
Time
Live
" I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older. "
Older
Life
Just
" I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.' "
Best Friend
Beauty
Women
" I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind. "
Love
Company
Mind
" I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can. "
Stop
Recycling
Mad
" I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down. "
Hate
Way
Down
" I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. "
You
City
Free
" I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. "
Wisdom
Peace
Age
" I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff. "
I Tried
Stuff
Tried
" It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied. "
Satisfied
Never
Headache
" I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted. "
Money
Work
Growing
" I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised. "
Parent
Time
Job
" I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot. "
Angry
Got
Impatient
" I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside. "
Reason
Care
Like
" Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa. "
Me
Never
Timing
" The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things. "
Age
Me
Wisdom
" There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way. "
Confidence
Yourself
Experience
" There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism. "
People
Luck
Me
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