Felicity Kendal Quotes

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• Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.
• Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
• I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph?…
• As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
• There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.
• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool…
• I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
• When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from…
• I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
• I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed…
• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle…

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