Joely Richardson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

“The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.”

“And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.”

“So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.”

“There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.”

“To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.”

“I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?”

“It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.”