Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

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• Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Effort
  • Optimistic

• I'm a really bad liar.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Bad
  • Really
  • Liar

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My generation were all careerists.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Generation
  • Were

• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Remember
  • Today

• Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Done
  • Charity

• There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Present

• People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • People

• Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • Black
  • Space

• But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

  

  David Cameron
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• People used to call me names, so my mom had this beautiful African lady come talk to me.

  

  Leslie Jones
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Mom

• It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Guy

• What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!

  

  Jason Statham
  • Hope

• I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

  

  Ashley Bell
  • Life
  • Done
  • Ballet

• We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

  

  Arthur Lynch
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

  

  Plato
  • Wine
  • Begin
  • Jar

• I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Do I believe in plastic surgery? Yes, if something is wrong and you can modify it. For certain people, it's right.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • People
  • Believe

• She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • She
  • Death
  • Husband

• Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

  

  Miranda Richardson
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