Juliet Stevenson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.”

“I often don't feel like the person I look like.”

“I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.”

“I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.”

“I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.”

“I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.”

“If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.”

“In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.”

“I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'”

“In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.”