Shirley Henderson Quotes

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

Shirley Henderson

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• Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Said

• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Never
  • See

• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Communication

• I love India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • India

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Life
  • Husband
  • Politics

• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Walk
  • Away

• I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Live
  • Night
  • Like

• I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Cool

• I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Practice
  • Psychology
  • Craft

• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • May
  • Truth
  • Universe

• 'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'

  

  Jack London
  • Poetry
  • Fool

• Only the free mind knows what Love is.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Free

• I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Laughter

• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  

  Josiah Stamp
  • Consequences
  • Responsibilities
  • Dodge

• I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone as well-known as that can't go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Evie? Evie! Ouch!" Jack yanked his hand out of mine,shaking it and glaring at me. "I need these fingers later.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Fingers
  • Shaking

• I thought my dad was a scientist when I was young. Seriously. Because people would come up to me, and they would be like, 'Your dad is the smartest person that I've ever met.' And I was so young, so I'd be like, 'Well he just put me on a time out, so I don't agree.'

  

  Jaden Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

  

  Phil Rizzuto
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Handshakes

• When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Brain
  • Film
  • Feels