Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful. "
Olivia Colman
Things Happen
Look
Beautiful
Related Quotes:
" If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work. "
Olivia Colman
Work
Me
Line
" I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it. "
Olivia Colman
Moving
Yourself
Simple
" I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it. "
Olivia Colman
Relationship
Kindness
Day
" Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country. "
Olivia Colman
Us
People
Old
" I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that. "
Olivia Colman
Long Time
Long
Grateful
" I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love. "
Olivia Colman
People
Love
Beautiful
" Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato. "
Olivia Colman
Love
Like
Jacket
" I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet. "
Olivia Colman
Meeting
Legend
Nervous
" My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist. "
Olivia Colman
Building
Company
Own
" If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that! "
Olivia Colman
Luck
Good Luck
Good
" I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen. "
Olivia Colman
Always
Lady
Serious
" I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.' "
Olivia Colman
Day
Alone
Lie
" I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable. "
Olivia Colman
Feel
Drama
Comfortable
" I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different. "
Olivia Colman
Emotional
Lovely
Nice
" It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see. "
Olivia Colman
Watching
Great
Grateful
" I want to be helpful to the charities I support. I think you can dilute it, the more you do. You have to be a bit strong about what you do... otherwise, you risk spreading yourself a bit thin, and you can be less useful. "
Olivia Colman
You
Think
Yourself
" I can't bear kissing scenes. "
Olivia Colman
Scenes
Kissing
Bear
" If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before. "
Olivia Colman
Choices
You
Good
" In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels. "
Olivia Colman
Own
Walk
Sweet
" My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything. "
Olivia Colman
Think
Happy
Children
" I open the doors for everybody all the time. "
Olivia Colman
Time
The Doors
Open
" I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around. "
Olivia Colman
I Am
Someone
Tart
" I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you. "
Olivia Colman
Job
I Am
Lucky
" In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic. "
Olivia Colman
Laugh
Bee
Trouble
" I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor. "
Olivia Colman
Comedy
Always
Actor
" I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely. "
Olivia Colman
God
Children
Morning
" Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid. "
Olivia Colman
Great
Acting
Kid
" Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium. "
Olivia Colman
Emotional
Everything
Kids
" I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not! "
Olivia Colman
Out
Turns
Patient
" After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky. "
Olivia Colman
Time
Think
Two