Zoe Wanamaker Quotes

#1. A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys "with increased statistical confidence.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

Zoe Wanamaker

#3. My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]

David Wishart

#4. Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.

Nan Shepherd

#5. Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Zoe Wanamaker

#6. I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zoe Wanamaker

#7. I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.

Zoe Wanamaker

#8. I don't know any woman who is happy with her looks. I certainly wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who was.

Zoe Wanamaker

#9. And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

Zoe Wanamaker

#10. Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

Zoe Wanamaker

#11. My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

Zoe Wanamaker

#12. I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

Zoe Wanamaker

#13. Yes,' he said; 'and not a dishonourable one. What held me back was just that one thing - a sense of morality that perhaps, madam, you did not give me credit for.' The latter words were spoken with a mien and tone of pride.

Thomas Hardy

#14. 'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

Zoe Wanamaker

#15. Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.

Mary E. Pearson

#16. I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

Zoe Wanamaker

#17. I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

Zoe Wanamaker