Miranda Richardson Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“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.”

“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 it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.”

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

“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.”

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

“It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.”

“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.”

“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 essence of drama.”