Pauline Collins Quotes

United Kingdom, Actress
September 3, 1940

Pauline Collins, OBE (born 3 September 1940), is an English actress of stage, television, and film, who first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–73) and its spin-off, Thomas & Sarah (1979). In 1992, she released her autobiography, titled Letter to Louise.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Pauline Collins
- Up
- Believe
- Bad
When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Pauline Collins
- Money
- Teacher

We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

Pauline Collins
- People
- Good
- Thinking
Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Pauline Collins
- Different
- Engagement
I have played a few lay saints in my time.

Pauline Collins
- Time
Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

Pauline Collins
- People
I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

Pauline Collins
- Evil
- Powerful
- Challenge
We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

Pauline Collins

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

Pauline Collins