Miranda Richardson famous quotes

04-27-2025

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
-- Miranda Richardson

#People #Insecurity #Tools
In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its 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.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Thinking #Giving #Dumb
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Garden #House #Needs
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Acting #Tvs #Roles
I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Want #Angst
If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Believe #Roles
It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Different #Resilient #Feels
London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.
-- Miranda Richardson

#London #Gob #Grounded
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.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Thinking #Theatre #Lucky
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Roots #Britain #Stills
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
-- Miranda Richardson
It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Moving #Difficult
For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Holiday #Years #Wildlife
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Ideas #Would Be #Persona
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Beach #Childhood #Sound
I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Tolerance #Walks
You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Attitude #Laughing #Los Angeles
You cant please all the people all the time.
-- Miranda Richardson

#People #Please
The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Believe #Writing #Want
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Design #Personality #Eccentric
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.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Beach #Lying #Whales
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'.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Thinking #Ideas #Doctors
And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Dames #Way
Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Dirty #Feminism
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.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Thinking #Nuts #People
I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Waiting #Want #Roles

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