Imelda Staunton Quotes

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

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• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Acting
  • Just
  • Wardrobe

• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Way

• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Voice

• Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Filmmaking

• I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Work
  • Job
  • Opportunities

• The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Heaven
  • Religion
  • Bible

• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Project
  • Materials
  • Budget

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Dark

• My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Democracy

• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Media

• I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

  

  Saul Rubinek
  • Theatre
  • Stage
  • Obsessed

• If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Brother

• I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Couple
  • Stage
  • Ego