Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

Miranda Richardson

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• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Me

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Men
  • Business

• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Culture

• You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Past
  • Problems
  • Jump

• To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Why

• And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Less

• I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Up
  • Done
  • Energy

• I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Trying
  • Wells
  • Get Well

• I went to public school up until junior high.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Single
  • Economic
  • Consequence

• Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

  

  Plato
  • Danger
  • Atheism
  • Acknowledgement

• I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Lead
  • Fundamentals

• The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Discover
  • Dissolve

• On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Question
  • Always
  • Information

• I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Different
  • Done
  • Career

• My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Roles
  • Models
  • Preaching

• I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

  

  Hayden Christensen
  • Roles
  • L.A. scene

• If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Roles