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Famous Quotes By Tamsin Greig

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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories. — Tamsin Greig

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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf! — Tamsin Greig

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A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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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

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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

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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home. — Tamsin Greig

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I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age. — Tamsin Greig

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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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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

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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. — Tamsin Greig

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Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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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

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When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive. — Tamsin Greig

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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. — Tamsin Greig

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I think I'm a bit odd. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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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

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When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.' — Tamsin Greig

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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out. — Tamsin Greig

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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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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

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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life. — Tamsin Greig

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence. — Tamsin Greig

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On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal. — Tamsin Greig

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and ... actually, it is fine.' — Tamsin Greig

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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

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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it. — Tamsin Greig