Joely Richardson Quotes

#1. My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world.

Shelley Conn

#2. Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Joely Richardson

#3. We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

David Fincher

#4. Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

John Philip Sousa

#5. People like best what is hard for them to obtain.

Hermann Hesse

#6. When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Joely Richardson

#7. OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

Joely Richardson

#8. The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

Joely Richardson

#9. To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Joely Richardson

#10. I live quite an unsettled life.

Joely Richardson

#11. I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

Joely Richardson

#12. Good heart, good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

Joely Richardson

#14. When you are motivated by the kindness and wellbeing of humanity, then nothing can scare or derail you.

Debasish Mridha

#15. There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Joely Richardson

#16. And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Joely Richardson

#17. I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

Shereen El Feki

#18. So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

Joely Richardson

#19. Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Audre Lorde

#20. You have never been invisible to me, flower. You're all I see.

L. H. Cosway

#21. I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

Joely Richardson

#22. I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

Oscar Goodman

#23. Let your commitment to various styles of writing never be waived!

Wanda Jefferson

#24. You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

Joely Richardson

#25. So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

Joely Richardson

#26. The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

Joely Richardson

#27. My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Joely Richardson

#28. Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Salman Rushdie

#29. Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

Joely Richardson

#30. It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.

Olaf Stapledon

#31. It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

Joely Richardson