Tamsin Greig Quotes
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
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When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.