Words matter. These are the best Lindsay Duncan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.
That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don’t see work as closing down as an older woman.
I know I’ll always work. In what form, it really doesn’t matter.
I want to have the career that is my choice – what interests me, what doesn’t. I feel more and more strongly about that.
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: ‘A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.’ Do they? I had no idea.
I’ve always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I’m so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she’s a fabulous person as well.
I’ve been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.
Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
My background is really being a writer’s actor – that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There’s a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That’s not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I’ve had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.
I loved ‘Homeland’ – it’s such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
I’m perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
The excitement of stepping onto a stage – there’s nothing quite like it.
My parents’ generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do – a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
A certain amount of anger doesn’t make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play – the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
