Billie Whitelaw Quotes

United Kingdom, Actress
June 6, 1932 – December, 21, 2014.

Billie Honor Whitelaw, CBE (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen. Whitelaw was appointed a CBE in the 1991 Birthday Honours.

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

Billie Whitelaw
- School
- Career
- Drama
I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

Billie Whitelaw
- People
- Time
- Good

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

Billie Whitelaw
- Time
I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.

Billie Whitelaw
- Up
- Work
- Why
When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

Billie Whitelaw
- Different
- Real
- Done
Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

Billie Whitelaw
- Life
- Up
- Death
I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.

Billie Whitelaw