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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But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

Miranda Richardson

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

Miranda Richardson

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Miranda Richardson

It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want ...

Miranda Richardson

You can't please all the people all the time.

Miranda Richardson

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

Miranda Richardson

It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.

Miranda Richardson

It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more work...

Miranda Richardson

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

Miranda Richardson

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

Miranda Richardson

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

Miranda Richardson

Author Bio

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