Quotes About Alex Kingston

#1. The actress I had the most fun working with was Alex Kingston. It was a fun relationship to play because it was a combination of occasional sexual harrassment with genuine affection. She's such a terrific actress and such a lovely person.

Paul McCrane

#2. The part of River Song, the Doctor's companion in his eleventh incarnation, was originally offered to Kate Winslet. She turned it down and the part went to Alex Kingston.

Andy Bell

#3. One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

Alex Kingston

#4. Tragedies might be bursts of misery, but regret was forever.

Brendan Duffy

#5. We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

Burt Rutan

#6. I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

Alex Kingston

#7. I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

Alex Kingston

#8. Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

Angela Merkel

#9. So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

Santigold

#10. I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Alex Kingston

#11. If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#12. Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Kingston

#13. A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

Vavasor Powell

#14. Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.

Ryoji Noyori

#15. It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

Alex Kingston

#16. I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

Alex Kingston

#17. The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

David Halberstam

#18. Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

Alex Kingston

#19. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

#20. As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

Peter Singer

#21. I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

Alex Kingston

#22. Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

Alex Kingston

#23. Bite your lips, little brother ... Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now ... Wait. Clench your teeth and wait ...

Elie Wiesel

#24. The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

Alex Kingston

#25. In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

Alex Kingston

#26. If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Alex Kingston

#27. I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.

Victoria Osteen

#28. I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

Alex Kingston

#29. All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

Marisa Tomei

#30. O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope.

-Leia Organa

Ian Doescher

#31. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Alex Kingston

#32. I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

Alex Kingston