Shirley Henderson Quotes

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Shirley Henderson

• Laughing
• Humour
• Indulgence
• Doom
• Gloom

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• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Myself
  • Challenge
  • Working

• But I want to do good work, after this series.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Dad
  • Understand

• I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Moving
  • Laughing
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• Margaret Sanger: Well I suppose a subject like that is really so personal that it is entirely up to the parents to decide, but from my view, I believe there should be no more babies in starving countries for the next ten years.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Movie
  • Irish

• By ‘successful socialization’ we mean the establishment of a high degree of symmetry between objective and subjective reality.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • High
  • Reality

• You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Laughing

• I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

  

  Lillian Russell
  • Husband
  • Lonely
  • Gloom

• My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Fans
  • Laughing

• I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Dream

• When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Thinking
  • Laughing
  • Rodeo

• I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Mistake
  • Garden

• I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Way
  • Laughing
  • Hell

• I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • God
  • Laughing
  • Faces

• I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • Men
  • Fun

• Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Joy
  • Weed
  • Gloom

• I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Hell
  • View
  • Tried

• I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Answers
  • Performances

• I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Laughing
  • Humour
  • Indulgence