Margaret Rutherford Quotes

#1. The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

Kenneth Tynan

#2. I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

Sophie Thompson

#3. I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.

Denholm Elliott

#4. As the Lady from Borneo digs out his eyeball, the thing eventually uncorks from its socket.

Robert Kirkman

#5. Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

Peter Schuyler

#6. Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.

Margaret Rutherford

#7. I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

Martin Lawrence

#8. Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

Ridley Scott

#9. Western nations took a strange pride in this system, though it amounted to little more than a power-sharing deal between two rival gangs, and they would even go to war to impose it on nations that failed to share their enthusiasm. Over

Michel Houellebecq

#10. Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

Margaret Rutherford

#11. I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

Marcus Brigstocke

#12. When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

Danny Pudi

#13. We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

David Sedaris

#14. I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.

Margaret Rutherford

#15. You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

Margaret Rutherford