Blethyn Brenda Quotes & Sayings

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles. — Brenda Blethyn

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom. — Brenda Blethyn

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside. — Brenda Blethyn

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training. — Brenda Blethyn

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. — Richard Ernst

The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive. — Phyllis McGinley

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema. — Brenda Blethyn

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets? — Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled — Brenda Blethyn

You're beautiful, Delaney, and you could have anyone you want. Why me?"
She knew she wasn't beautiful, not like her mother. But the way he looked at her and touched her, and the tone of his voice when he said it made her almost believe him. He made her believe anything was possible. "Because you make me not want to say no. — Rachel Gibson

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good. — Brenda Blethyn

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition. — Brenda Blethyn

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over. — Brenda Blethyn

In that day every trial borne in patience will be pleasing and the voice of iniquity will be stilled; the devout will be glad; the irreligious will mourn; and the mortified body will rejoice far more than if it had been pampered with every pleasure. Then the cheap garment will shine with splendor and the rich one become faded and worn; the poor cottage will be more praised than the gilded palace. In that day persevering patience will count more than all the power in this world; simple obedience will be exalted above all worldly cleverness; a good and clean conscience will gladden the heart of man far more than the philosophy of the learned; and contempt for riches will be of more weight than every treasure on earth. — Thomas A Kempis

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days. — Brenda Blethyn

My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel — Brenda Blethyn

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening. — Brenda Blethyn

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say. — Peter Meinke

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. — Brenda Blethyn

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are. — Brenda Blethyn

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period. — Brenda Blethyn

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater. — Brenda Blethyn

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry. — Brenda Blethyn

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones. — Brenda Blethyn

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre. — Brenda Blethyn

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well. — Brenda Blethyn

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies. — Brenda Blethyn

Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn't talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility. — Jim Harbaugh

Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his — Jane Austen

I always think 12 times before saying anything. — Brenda Blethyn

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before. — Brenda Blethyn

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years. — Brenda Blethyn