Quotes by Pauline Collins

About Pauline Collins:

Pauline Collins is an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which she received Laurence Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk awards. She reprised the role in a 1989 film adaptation, winning a BAFTA and garnering Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
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I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

Pauline Collins

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Pauline Collins

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Pauline Collins

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

Pauline Collins

Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

Pauline Collins

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

Pauline Collins

We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the go...

Pauline Collins

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

Pauline Collins

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Pauline Collins

Author Bio

  • NamePauline Collins
  • DescriptionBritish actress
  • BornSeptember 3, 1940
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire