British Actress Quotes

Audrey Hepburn

Elizabeth Taylor

Vivien Leigh

Charlotte Rampling

Keira Knightley

Emma Thompson

Julie Andrews

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.

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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.

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.

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

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

I was mistaken for a prostitute once in the last war. When a GI asked me what I charged, I said, 'Well, dear, what do your mother and sisters normally ask for?'

I was born a vegetarian. … I feel there is no need to cause another living thing pain or harm. There are so many other things we can eat. I have never eaten meat in my life, and I'm 5 foot 10 and not exactly wasting away. A wise man once said, 'Animals are my friends, and I'm not in the habit of eating my friends.' That is exactly how I feel.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Mandy Rice-Davies

Everything is easier in France. We pay more taxes, but the hospitals don't kill you.

Kristin Scott Thomas

No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there.

Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.

Life, if you're fat, is a minefield—you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up.

Miriam Margolyes

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.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

One theory is that I was named after the opera and the other that my mum was sitting in her boudoir wondering what to call me and glanced at her Carmen rollers. I prefer the Bizet theory.

Women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Barbara Kellerman

She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

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.

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

Miranda Richardson

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

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.

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.

Virginia McKenna

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.