Quotes by Jennifer Ehle

About Jennifer Ehle:

Jennifer Anne Ehle is an English-American actress of stage and screen. For her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the successful 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. She is the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle.
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I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

Jennifer Ehle

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

Jennifer Ehle

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

Jennifer Ehle

I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.

Jennifer Ehle

I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.

Jennifer Ehle

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

Jennifer Ehle

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

Jennifer Ehle

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

Jennifer Ehle

There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made ...

Jennifer Ehle

I really never get recognized at all for anything.

Jennifer Ehle

It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

Jennifer Ehle

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

Jennifer Ehle

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

Jennifer Ehle

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

Jennifer Ehle

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

Jennifer Ehle

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time ...

Jennifer Ehle

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live ...

Jennifer Ehle

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

Jennifer Ehle

Author Bio

  • NameJennifer Ehle
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornDecember 29, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor