Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
-
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
-
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
-
I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
-
We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
-
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
-
I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
-
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
-
I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
-
You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
-
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
-
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
-
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
-
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
-
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
-
I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
-
A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
-
Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
-
We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
-
It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
-
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.
-
Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.
-
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
