Olivia Williams Quotes

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• The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my…
• The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
• Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's…
• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people…
• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
• I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
• My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
• My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be…
• I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue.…
• I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with…
• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the…
• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy…
• I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as…
• There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're…
• When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that…
• How lucky am I?

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