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Harriet Walter quotes

Ocupation: Actress

Life: b. September 24, 1950

Birthday: September 24

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As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Topics: Perfect, Easier, Realising

quote i lived with my mother all my life until she died and i don t really think i knew her harriet walter Quotes

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

source: - "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

Topics: Thinking, Circles, Long, Crosswords, Chatting

I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Silly, People, Tease, Tease Me

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

source: - "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

Topics: Beautiful, Thinking, People

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mother, Mean, Thinking

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

Topics: Long, Kind, Mature

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Sleep, Six, Bed

I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

source: - "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

Topics: Self, People, Actors

I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

Topics: Mean, Want, Spheres

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

Topics: Thinking, Play, Lucky, Bigger Person

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

source: - "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

Topics: Theatre, Interfaces, Protected

As long as I am still interested and curious I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

source: - "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

Topics: Morning, Long, Faces, Smile On My Face, Happy Smile

I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully all was well.

source: - "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

Topics: Strong, Blessed, Healthy, Mammograms

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