Juliet Stevenson Quotes

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• Everything contains its antithesis.
• Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.
• I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half…
• I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.
• I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.
• I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
• I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.
• I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.
• I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
• If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
• In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but…
• There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But…
• I often don't feel like the person I look like.
• I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling…
• I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.
• I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.
• In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we…
• I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't…
• I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested…
• It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb…

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