Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Imelda Staunton Quotes

I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

Imelda Staunton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: January 9, 1956

Topics

Funny Fight Small Always Against Oh

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

Family Ocean Name Details American

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

John C. McGinley

You Play Going Some Shakespeare

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

Andrew Sean Greer

Weird Back Risk Sentimental Hold

I could never dream of being cool.

Cool Dream Never Being Could

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Down Sitting Being Like Bathtub

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Great People Inventors Laughed

Life is going to happen to you no matter what weight you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank. No one gets a free pass.

Amanda de Cadenet

Life Money Free Famous You Matter

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

Life Work Sports You Want Possible

Actions have consequences.

Consequences Actions

The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.

Home Stress Pain Night Back Way

In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

Women Focus Men World Key Need

To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.

Know She Movement Own Star Sell

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Imelda Staunton