Celia Imrie (Celia Diana Savile Imrie) Quotes

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

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• My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • She
  • Style

• Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Sound
  • Laughter

• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Country
  • Corruption
  • Morals

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Thought
  • Just
  • Phenomenal

• I'm a fast writer.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Writer
  • Fast

• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Work
  • Picture
  • Movies

• I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Try
  • Week
  • Pressure

• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Future
  • Humanity

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • Art
  • Effort

• I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Life
  • War
  • Rest

• Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Intentions

• Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Work
  • Mistake
  • Easy

• I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Guy

• I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Movie
  • Road
  • New York

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• The law is an ass, an idiot.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Law
  • Idiot

• I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Style

• As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I feel a lot more comfortable at shortstop, but it's no problem, I'll move to make room.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Room
  • No Problem
  • Shortstop

• Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

  

  Josh Hutcherson
  • Change
  • Acting
  • Growing Up

• Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Acting
  • Shows
  • Stage