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All Quotes by author - Tamsin Greig

" A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way. "

" Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. "

" Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful. "

" Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories. "

" Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation. "

" Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it. "

" I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened. "

" I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing. "

" I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful. "

" I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit. "

" I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business. "

" I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out. "

" I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it. "

" If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down. "

" I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. "

" If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home. "

" I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach. "

" I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity. "

" I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age. "

" I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it? "

" I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.' "

" I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people. "

" I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that. "

" In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal. "

" I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult. "

" I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life. "

" I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun. "

" I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry. "

" I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself. "

" I think I'm a bit odd. "

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