Katherine Parkinson Quotes

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

Katherine Parkinson

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • School
  • Love
  • Remember

• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • House

• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Great
  • Funny

• My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fun

• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • School
  • Health
  • Same

• I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • World
  • Want
  • Drama

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Me
  • Drama
  • Yeah

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Time
  • School
  • Decisions

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Important
  • School
  • High

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Would
  • Wearing

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just putting that out there. I don't know if I'm funny enough, but we'll see.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Night

• I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

  

  James Caan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Artists
  • Interested

• I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

  

  Katherine Parkinson
  • School
  • Funny
  • Serious