Billie Whitelaw Quotes

#1. The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

Billie Whitelaw

#3. I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

Billie Whitelaw

#4. I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

Billie Whitelaw

#5. If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

Pamela Sue Martin

#6. I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

Billie Whitelaw

#7. To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.

Amos Oz

#8. Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

Stephen Richards

#9. I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.

Billie Whitelaw

#10. I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.

Billie Whitelaw

#11. Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

Billie Whitelaw