--- title: "3 Marion Bailey Quotes - Famous Actor (The chance of a lifetime)" description: "British actress. Browse 3 Marion Bailey quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marion-bailey-63967.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Marion Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marion-bailey-63967.jpg) # Marion Bailey (1951) Actor United Kingdom **3** quotes in **42** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Marion Bailey is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for *The chance of a lifetime*. ## Quick Facts About Marion Bailey Born May 5, 1951 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Actor Notable works The chance of a lifetime ## About Marion Bailey Marion Bailey is an English actress. She is best known for her work with her partner, filmmaker Mike Leigh, including the films Meantime (1983), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Mr. Turner (2014), for which she was nominated for Supporting Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle, and Peterloo (2018). In 2019 and 2020, she portrayed Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown on Netflix, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in 2020 and 2021. In 2024 she was given an achievement award by the Filming Italy Sardegna festival. ## Quotes by Marion Bailey > [It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marion-bailey/it-s-more-acceptable-for-guys-to-get-old-and-craggy-and-become/) Marion Bailey [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b07/marion-bailey-76892_acceptable_it-s-more-acceptable-for-guys-to-get-old_77045.jpg) > [In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marion-bailey/in-victorian-england-people-were-told-they-should-discourage-their/) Marion Bailey [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/290/marion-bailey-76892_because_in-victorian-england-people-were-told-th_1192039.jpg) > [Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marion-bailey/georgian-england-was-very-radical-there-were-all-these-new/) Marion Bailey [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a9/marion-bailey-76892_did_georgian-england-was-very-radical-there_1247305.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marion-bailey/#itemlist", "name": "Marion Bailey Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marion Bailey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marion-bailey/it-s-more-acceptable-for-guys-to-get-old-and-craggy-and-become/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b07/marion-bailey-76892_acceptable_it-s-more-acceptable-for-guys-to-get-old_77045.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b07/marion-bailey-76892_acceptable_it-s-more-acceptable-for-guys-to-get-old_77045.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b07/marion-bailey-76892_acceptable_it-s-more-acceptable-for-guys-to-get-old_77045.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older…” — Marion Bailey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marion Bailey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marion-bailey/in-victorian-england-people-were-told-they-should-discourage-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/290/marion-bailey-76892_because_in-victorian-england-people-were-told-th_1192039.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/290/marion-bailey-76892_because_in-victorian-england-people-were-told-th_1192039.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/290/marion-bailey-76892_because_in-victorian-england-people-were-told-th_1192039.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead…” — Marion Bailey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Georgian England was very radical; 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