British Actress Quotes

Audrey Hepburn

Elizabeth Taylor

Vivien Leigh

Charlotte Rampling

Keira Knightley

Emma Thompson

Julie Andrews

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

Kate Beckinsale

He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdresser's, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too.

It really is strange the way I work for success but when I get there cannot appreciate it. I enjoy the road to success and the struggle — even when it gets hard. But when I achieve my goal, I feel suddenly and totally stressed. Only in retrospect can I begin to enjoy the moment and admit just how great it was.

Sarah Brightman

It was a strange life, I suppose, but it was the only one I've ever known. What is a normal childhood anyway?

Good Lord. I'd be lying if I said I'd never Googled myself, but it honestly never occurred to me to add 'naked' to my search criteria. Sure enough, there have been five nude 'episodes'. And I know this is self-destructive but somehow I find myself on a 'nudescenes' forum where linus22 is arguing that I have odd-shaped nipples. Do I? Oh God! That thought never occurred to me! One more for the self-esteem list.

Me and my brother used to spend a lot of time at music festivals, running away from skinheads. Then my brother became a skinhead... I used to get excruciatingly, mind-numbingly dull guitar lessons from my father: tonic, subdominant, dominant. Yeah, but how do I play it? Tonic, subdominant, mediant. This is a seventh. Great, how do I play it?

Sienna Guillory

The whole of time would not be long enough to tell you of my joy in being married to you. Joy is not measured just by lovely things: the birth of babies, the song of birds heard together, the fun of holidays — the lyrical-love of lying with you. Joy is to be found, too, in the relief after pain shared, in the good news following bad, in the knowledge of greater closeness after disaster.

There is definitely a fuck-you quality to the characters I choose.

Keira Knightley

I don't feel I have to look or act a certain way. But this might change, as I get older. I'm not worrying about it right now. I'm enjoying myself.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It's then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

I wasn't strong enough to withstand such strong opinions. I keep them in a trunk and, from time to time, will read one from long ago.

No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

Elizabeth Taylor

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

It always makes me laugh when people ask why anyone would want to do a sitcom in America. If it runs five years, you never have to work again.

We had so little to eat, we were freezing all the time, but the sheer joy of being able to act fed our souls.

Hana Maria Pravda

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Another great illusion that woman must... destroy... is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it...

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea—one swims where one wants.

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

Eva Le Gallienne

The trouble with the theater is that it's no longer a way of life for an audience. It's just a way to kill an evening.

There is no more West. We are the West. So we've got to take care of what we have.