Words matter. These are the best Miranda Richardson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They’re deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design – terrific.
London keeps me grounded. We don’t get praised every time we open our gobs there.
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
It’s the idea that when you say ‘actress’, people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can’t be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to ‘actor’, because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say ‘woman doctor’ not ‘doctoress’.
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don’t want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there’s some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
I’ve never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don’t feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.
I wouldn’t want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.
I’m not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.
In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it’s just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn’t have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
It’s a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it’s quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
You can’t please all the people all the time.
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn’t really. I didn’t use the beach very much at all.
And there’s no way I’m going to do Dame Edna.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor’s trade.
If I don’t believe in a role, I can’t pull it off.
I carry music in my head, so I don’t need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.
