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All Quotes by author - Imelda Staunton
" Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. "
You
Accommodate
Box
" A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks. "
Stars
Playing
Just
" A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. "
Me
You
Work
" At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. "
Look
Envy
Loved
" Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke. "
Parents
Problems
Mother
" Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. "
Positive
People
Attitude
" Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied. "
Bullying
Brave
Children
" Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all. "
Me
School
Up
" For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street. "
Clothes
Street
Love
" Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be. "
Career
Never
Look
" Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. "
Time
Attitude
Child
" Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it. "
Mother
Death
Think
" I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. "
Idols
Good
Present
" I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts. "
I Am
Say
Well
" I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. "
Yourself
Believe
Religion
" I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding. "
Singing
Like
Know
" If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates. "
You
Award
Against
" I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her. "
Work
Work Ethic
Good
" I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all. "
Day
Start
Television
" I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid. "
She
Think
Life
" I've always liked new writing. "
Always
New
Liked
" I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.' "
Small
Funny
Fight
" I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego. "
Stage
Ego
Fallen
" I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt. "
Catholic
Guilt
Pleasure
" I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that? "
Better
London
Theatre
" Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does. "
Look
Brilliant
Whatever
" Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. "
Love
Food
Good
" The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another. "
Way
Through
Profile
" There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character. "
Doing
Wonderful
Become
" To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story. "
Look
Life
Me
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