Miranda Richardson

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

— Miranda Richardson

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

— Miranda Richardson

You cant please all the people all the time.

— Miranda Richardson

Our press is the most disgusting in the world.

— Miranda Richardson

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

— Miranda Richardson

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

— Miranda Richardson

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

— Miranda Richardson

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

— 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

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

— Miranda Richardson

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

— Miranda Richardson

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no…

— Miranda Richardson

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

— Miranda Richardson

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

— 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

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people…

— 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…

— Miranda Richardson

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel…

— Miranda Richardson

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Miranda Richardson

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do,…

— Miranda Richardson

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some…

— Miranda Richardson

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If…

— Miranda Richardson

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if…

— Miranda Richardson

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve.…

— 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…

— Miranda Richardson

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

— Miranda Richardson

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

— Miranda Richardson

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

— Miranda Richardson

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

— Miranda Richardson

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite…

— Miranda Richardson

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

— Miranda Richardson

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

— Miranda Richardson

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

— Miranda Richardson

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

— Miranda Richardson

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson