Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they? "
Lindsay Duncan
Mean
Child
Outgoing
Related Quotes:
" I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.' "
Lindsay Duncan
Enough
Play
Think
" I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me. "
Lindsay Duncan
Me
Experience
Friend
" I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in. "
Lindsay Duncan
You
Hero
I Am
" No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind. "
Lindsay Duncan
Matter
People
Us
" If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant. "
Lindsay Duncan
Enough
Said
Someone
" I don't have any desire to be better known. "
Lindsay Duncan
Any
Better
Desire
" I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me. "
Lindsay Duncan
Nobody
Happy
I Can
" I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts. "
Lindsay Duncan
Famous
Writing
World
" A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real. "
Lindsay Duncan
Less
Just
Anger
" The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it. "
Lindsay Duncan
Quite
Nothing
Stage
" I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix. "
Lindsay Duncan
You
Life
Know
" I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile. "
Lindsay Duncan
Done
Always
Actor
" You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage. "
Lindsay Duncan
Courage
Remember
Work
" My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive. "
Lindsay Duncan
History
Medical
Mother
" I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice. "
Lindsay Duncan
Voice
New
Listening
" Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood. "
Lindsay Duncan
Miserable
Hollywood
Down
" I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman. "
Lindsay Duncan
Down
Work
Woman
" It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity. "
Lindsay Duncan
Conformity
World
People
" My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous. "
Lindsay Duncan
Music
School
Bee
" I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.' "
Lindsay Duncan
Crazy
Mother
Son
" I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that. "
Lindsay Duncan
Me
Career
Choice
" You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act. "
Lindsay Duncan
Someone
Act
Because
" I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there. "
Lindsay Duncan
Feel
Family
Generosity
" My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing. "
Lindsay Duncan
People
Me
Best
" That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere. "
Lindsay Duncan
Think
Pretty
Road
" Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea. "
Lindsay Duncan
Opening
Mistake
Voice
" I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter. "
Lindsay Duncan
Work
Matter
Know