Celia Imrie Quotes

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• Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts…
• There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because…
• I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,
• Single by choice, just not my choice.
• Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or…
• A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.
• Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.
• Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
• I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.
• I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.
• I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
• I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.
• I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let…
• If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm…
• While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
• I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums,…
• I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have.…
• I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit…
• I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance…
• I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still…

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