Imelda Staunton Quotes
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Quotes to Explore
-
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
-
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
-
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
-
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
-
Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
-
How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
-
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
-
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
-
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
-
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
-
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
-
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
-
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
-
I hate competition.
-
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
-
I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
-
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
-
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
-
I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
-
I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.
-
I like that Barack got that job.
-
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
