Geraldine James

I went to a posh school but I'm not a posh person.

— Geraldine James

We can't all play Marie Antoinette all of the time.

— Geraldine James

I don't suffer depression because I don't worry about what's past. But anxiety is about the future and I do worry about…

— Geraldine James

Jo and I tried for a second baby, but it didn't happen. The doctors - silly idiots - didn't take the problem…

— Geraldine James

I've become much fitter as I've got older, funnily enough.

— Geraldine James

My daughter always came first and I got used to my agent saying, when I turned down this or that project because…

— Geraldine James

I think French hotels are generally pretty awful - lumpy beds, often not terribly clean and just uncomfortable - but usually the…

— Geraldine James

I knew nothing about India before 'Gandhi.' It seemed quite sort of frightening the place where hippies used to go in the…

— Geraldine James

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very…

— Geraldine James

My mother was an alcoholic, in and out of hospital my entire childhood. My father, a doctor, divorced her when I was…

— Geraldine James

Very early on there were the girls who were good at singing, at the arts, or mathematics or languages, and I wasn't…

— Geraldine James

That's what I enjoy: the ensemble, being in a company, being part of something.

— Geraldine James

Band Of Gold' nearly did me in. We had 16 weeks of night shoots and I was never getting home to London…

— Geraldine James

They are brought up to be the providers, the tough guys at the top of the family. The attitude is: 'Don't make…

— Geraldine James

At around 45, when I was being offered the same old boring TV parts. So I went back to the theatre.

— Geraldine James

I've never played a police person before 'Black Work,' and certainly had never worn a uniform.

— Geraldine James

I think men have much more difficulty in saying: 'Could I talk to you about this?' The idea of counselling is still…

— Geraldine James

I don't like doing what I've already done. But there's a lot of different kinds of characters that I'd like to play.…

— Geraldine James

I talk to my husband about everything.

— Geraldine James

I'm stopped more regularly about 'Utopia' than almost anything I've ever done. People will come up and say 'you were in 'Utopia,'…

— Geraldine James

The good thing about buying things online is that you can send them back.

— Geraldine James

My own sister has always been apparently more successful socially. I was much more the serious one. While she was out shopping…

— Geraldine James

My fantasy was to have a home in the country with six children, all with different fathers. The fathers would come down…

— Geraldine James

You see people who, because they are leading actors, think they're of a higher echelon than mere mortals. And that really annoys…

— Geraldine James

I don't want to find 'my part' and keep doing it.

— Geraldine James