Miranda Richardson Quotes

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

You cant please all the people all the time.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

Our press is the most disgusting in the world.

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.