Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite. "

Related Quotes:

" I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God. "

" It's a mystery, that thing about chemistry, because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. "

" When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before. "

" All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap. "

" I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it. "

" I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.' "

" There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down. "

" Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly. "

" My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. "

" I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating. "

" You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that. "

" There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time. "

" I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production. "

" Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate. "

" When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. "

" People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. "

" I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do. "

" Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything. "

" The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women. "

" I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. "

" When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. "

" When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable. "

" The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism. "

" I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go. "

" I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up. "

" When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people. "

" I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God. "

" People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out. "

" I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.' "

" I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic. "