Imelda Staunton Quotes
I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.
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Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
