Estelle Quotes

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

You can do anything you want to do.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

I want to give producers more financial security.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

The thing that makes me feel powerful is when I make a decision about something and I make it happen.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

When there is hope, there is life.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

When I see what I want, I do it.

I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new.

Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

I have never been interested in specific roles.