Celia Imrie (Celia Diana Savile Imrie) Quotes
There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.
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I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.
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The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
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I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
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I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.
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There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.
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There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
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Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.
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She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.
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When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like, 30 scenes a show, which was revolutionary. 'Arrested Development' has probably got 60 scenes per show. It just keeps emerging as this more and more complex thing. I always try to keep it very simple at its heart.
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Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.
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I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
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I feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.
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There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.
