"My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended……" — Celia Imrie
"My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor."
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28 Quotes by Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie has 28 quotes on this site.
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Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time.…
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There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't…
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I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,
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Single by choice, just not my choice.
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Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and…
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A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.
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Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.
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Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
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I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of…
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I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.
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I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men…
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I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.
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More Aristocrat Quotes
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
— Sade Adu
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to…
— Michael York
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with…
— Andrew Johnson
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom
— Georg Buchner
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar…
— Lytton Strachey
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Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went…
— Michael Foley
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