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'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Journey

• 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’ve read his book. I know he says the problem’s me and professes to be bemused by my antipathy towards him, and it’s true that I came out of rehab without that safety valve of drink and drugs, no ‘off’ button. I was more assertive than before. But he was behaving like the life of a rock star was the worst kind of life there was, and in my opinion he was taking it out on the group, the management, the technicians, and now the audience, and there was one person – one, me – who wasn’t prepared to let him get away with it.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Book
  • Problem
  • Audience

• At nine years old I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Growing Up
  • Sport
  • Softball

• What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  

  Benjamin Bloom
  • Learn
  • Conditions
  • Current

• 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