Penelope Wilton Quotes

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

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• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

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• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

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• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

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• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

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• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  

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• Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

  

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• I don't take story input from fans.

  

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• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

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• We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

  

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• The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, 'divine.'

  

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• I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

  

  Penelope Wilton
  • Nice