Miranda Richardson Quotes

United Kingdom, Actress
March 3, 1958

Miranda Jane Richardson is an English actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage and Tom & Viv. A seven-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Damage, and Golden Globe Awards for Enchanted April and the TV film Fatherland.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

Miranda Richardson
- Words
- Feminism
I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

Miranda Richardson
- Feels
- Should
- Able

Our press is the most disgusting in the world.

Miranda Richardson
- World
- Disgusting
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Miranda Richardson
- Friends
- House
- Needs
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

Miranda Richardson
- Stills
- Roots
- Britain
We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

Miranda Richardson
- Fighting
- Equal
I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

Miranda Richardson
- Kind
- Boring
If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

Miranda Richardson
- Kind
- Quality
- Feels

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

Miranda Richardson
- Surprised
- Corners
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

Miranda Richardson
- Ideas
- Concerned
- Persona
London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

Miranda Richardson
- Grounded
- Gob