Actors Quote by Penelope Keith Download Open image “I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.” — Penelope Keith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Being Retire Retiring Stop Think Thinking Work
Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I believe acting also has a retirement phase. Unfortunately, no one in the industry is ready to accept that. — Salim Kumar Copy Share Image
There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan,… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image