Top 35 Brenda Blethyn Quotes
#1. People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
Brenda Blethyn
#2. John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
Ben Horowitz
#3. I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
Brenda Blethyn
#5. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
Helen Prejean
#6. Greater than all the joys
Of heaven and earth,
Greater still than dominion
Over all the worlds,
Is the joy of reaching the stream.
Gautama Buddha
#7. I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.
Brenda Blethyn
#8. At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled
Brenda Blethyn
#9. In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.
Brenda Blethyn
#10. I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.
Eric Roberts
#11. Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
Brenda Blethyn
#12. I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
Brenda Blethyn
#13. I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
Brenda Blethyn
#14. Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.
Brenda Blethyn
#15. I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.
Brenda Blethyn
#16. It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
Brenda Blethyn
#17. I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?
Brenda Blethyn
#18. I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
Brenda Blethyn
#19. When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
Brenda Blethyn
#20. God, this kiss. It was the kind she'd remember forever, that would invade her dreams and haunt her in quiet moments. The kind her older self could look back on and know, once, she'd really lived. The kind that, no matter what, she could never, ever regret.
Laura Kaye
#22. The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
Brenda Blethyn
#23. Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
Brenda Blethyn
#24. Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.
Brenda Blethyn
#25. My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel
Brenda Blethyn
#27. A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.
Erma Bombeck
#28. The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
Brenda Blethyn
#30. I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
Brenda Blethyn
#31. I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.
Brenda Blethyn
#33. Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
Brenda Blethyn
#34. Maria looked at the TARDIS ... 'Is that really your carriage?' She asked. 'It is not very good, monsieur. It has no wheels.'
'It doesn't need them,' laughed Amy. 'It's an English carriage. They don't have wheels.
'Does Monsieur Rory push it?'
'When necessary,' laughed Amy.
James Goss
#35. It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.
Brenda Blethyn
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