Top 34 Penelope Keith Quotes
#1. The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?
Penelope Keith
#2. A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
Penelope Keith
#3. I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.
Penelope Keith
#4. 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 actors all the time.
Penelope Keith
#5. 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
#8. I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.
Penelope Keith
#9. Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.
Penelope Keith
#10. Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
Penelope Keith
#11. I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
Penelope Keith
#12. Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
Penelope Keith
#13. In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
Penelope Keith
#14. 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 to sound posh but so you could be understood.
Penelope Keith
#15. I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.
Michael Jackson
#16. 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
#17. In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
Penelope Keith
#18. 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 love that Highland burr.
Penelope Keith
#19. Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
Ralph Marston
#20. I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.
Penelope Keith
#22. I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.
Penelope Keith
#24. 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 on.
Penelope Keith
#25. The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
Alfred De Vigny
#26. Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Anthony Trollope
#27. 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 is just the most beautiful city.
Penelope Keith
#28. I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.
Michael Kors
#30. Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.
Seth MacFarlane
#31. Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.
Penelope Keith
#32. Loving yourself first sets the tone for your entire life in every relationship.
L.J. Vanier
#33. 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 middle of a performance.
Penelope Keith
#34. I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
Penelope Keith
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