Top 100 Tamsin Quotes
#1. My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.' It starred Tamsin Greig. I just played a small role - I think officially my role was 'teenage boy' - it was one episode.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#2. I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her last tears.
'Next time they take me to the tanks,' Ana continued, 'I'll make sure they drown me.'
'OK, it's official. You're mad.
Claire Merle
#3. I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them ... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.
Tracey Ullman
#4. Gabriel: You're not going to do anything stupid, are you?
Tamsin: You mean intentionally?
Carolyn MacCullough
#5. Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.
Emily Arden
#6. I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
Tamsin Egerton
#8. When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
Tamsin Greig
#9. I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
Tamsin Egerton
#10. I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
Tamsin Greig
#11. I love jewellery, but it's something I go through stages with. I have my go-to pieces that I will bring out and wear for weeks at a time.
Tamsin Egerton
#12. I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
Tamsin Greig
#13. I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton
#14. Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig
#15. I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
Tamsin Greig
#16. It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.
Tamsin Greig
#17. I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
Tamsin Egerton
#18. There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
Tamsin Greig
#19. I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
Tamsin Egerton
#20. I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
Tamsin Egerton
#21. That's really why I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a part of this generation's telling of Camelot, and also get the chance to play a fantastic, complex, interesting, emotionally passionate, young lead role.
Tamsin Egerton
#22. I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
Tamsin Greig
#24. I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.
Tamsin Egerton
#25. We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
Tamsin Greig
#27. Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
Tamsin Greig
#28. Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
Tamsin Egerton
#29. It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
Tamsin Greig
#30. I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
Tamsin Egerton
#31. I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
Tamsin Egerton
#32. Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.
Tamsin Greig
#33. If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
#34. If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
Tamsin Greig
#35. At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
Tamsin Egerton
#36. The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
Tamsin Egerton
#37. I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
Tamsin Greig
#38. My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton
#40. I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
Tamsin Greig
#41. I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.
Tamsin Greig
#42. I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
Tamsin Greig
#43. I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
Tamsin Greig
#44. Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.
Tamsin Egerton
#45. I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
Tamsin Greig
#46. Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
Tamsin Greig
#47. I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.
Tamsin Greig
#48. I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
Tamsin Egerton
#49. I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
Tamsin Egerton
#50. On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
Tamsin Greig
#51. When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
Tamsin Egerton
#52. Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
Tamsin Egerton
#53. I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
Tamsin Egerton
#54. Guinevere is not the Morgan type, where she's sultry and she knows she has this incredible female energy that she can use and utilize, and she's not necessarily used to having this power over men.
Tamsin Egerton
#55. When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
Tamsin Greig
#56. Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
Tamsin Egerton
#57. How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?
Claire Merle
#58. I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
Tamsin Egerton
#59. What I don't like about Guinevere is the fact that she can't control her passions and urges. She gets herself into quite a love triangle, and quite a web. Personally, I find that very difficult to relate to. But, it wouldn't be interesting, if she did everything right.
Tamsin Egerton
#60. I've always wanted to play Guinevere. I just asked Chris what he thought, and he steered me in the right directions. We just wanted to make her young and able to make mistakes, which I think is important.
Tamsin Egerton
#61. Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
Tamsin Greig
#62. There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.
Tamsin Greig
#63. I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
Tamsin Egerton
#64. I did used to like trampolining, but I'm probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I've had three children.
Tamsin Greig
#65. Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
Tamsin Greig
#66. I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
Tamsin Greig
#67. I know that the battle scenes, as well, are quite gory and quite strong. Battle was romantic, but it was far from being easy. It's nice, in both respects, to have that color and contrast.
Tamsin Egerton
#68. I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
Tamsin Egerton
#69. Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
Tamsin Greig
#70. If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself.
Tamsin Egerton
#71. I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
Tamsin Egerton
#72. I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
Tamsin Greig
#73. Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
Tamsin Greig
#74. Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
Tamsin Egerton
#75. Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
Tamsin Greig
#76. A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
Tamsin Greig
#77. I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.
Tamsin Greig
#78. I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.
Tamsin Egerton
#79. I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
Tamsin Greig
#80. I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
Tamsin Egerton
#81. I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
Tamsin Greig
#82. The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
Tamsin Egerton
#83. I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.
Tamsin Greig
#84. I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
Tamsin Greig
#85. I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
Tamsin Greig
#86. I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton
#87. I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
#88. I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
Tamsin Greig
#90. I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
Tamsin Egerton
#91. My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
Tamsin Egerton
#92. Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
Tamsin Greig
#93. I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'
Tamsin Greig
#94. Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it ... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
Tamsin Greig
#95. Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
Tamsin Egerton
#96. I'm a complete junky for lotions and potions! I love SkinCeuticles Hydrating B5 Gel; it's like a serum and I put it on my face, and immediately I can feel it. I put my moisturiser on top of that, and I just know that it's going in more. I can feel it working, and I love it.
Tamsin Egerton
#97. I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
Tamsin Greig
#98. You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Tamsin Greig
#99. I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
Tamsin Greig
#100. Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
Tamsin Greig
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