Acting Quote by Penelope Keith

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

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

— Penelope Keith

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

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

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

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

I'm a realist.

— Penelope Keith

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

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

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

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

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

— Penelope Keith