Quotes by Miranda Richardson

About Miranda Richardson:

Miranda Jane Richardson is an English stage, film and television actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger in 1985, and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage (1992) and Tom & Viv (1994). For Damage, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also won Golden Globe Awards for Enchanted April (1992) and the TV film Fatherland (1994).
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You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Miranda Richardson

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.

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It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

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Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

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And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

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It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

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I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

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

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If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But ...

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I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

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If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

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In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's 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...

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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

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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.

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I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

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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.

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I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

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My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

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I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the ...

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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 b...

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Author Bio

  • NameMiranda Richardson
  • Descriptionbritish actress
  • BornMarch 3, 1958
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor