Maxine Peake Quotes

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

Maxine Peake

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• Everyone is doing forensics.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Doing
  • Everyone
  • Forensics

• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Character
  • Story
  • Looks

• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Job
  • I Can

• In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Understanding
  • System

• When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Family
  • Said
  • Laugh

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Rest
  • Woman

• Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Long
  • Women
  • Sports

• Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • Never
  • Laugh

• It's fun to move people musically.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Move

• I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Watch
  • Little
  • Court

• Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Yourself
  • Plan
  • Just Because

• I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Women
  • Think
  • Nice

• We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Art
  • Past

• Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• We can't help everybody. You can't keep everyone alive.

  

  Barry O'Sullivan
  • Help
  • Alive

• True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Education

• I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

  

  Maxine Peake