Horrocks Quotes & Sayings

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic. — Jane Horrocks

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. — Peter Atkins

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up. — Jane Horrocks

I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world — Brian Horrocks

I always thought I should be treated like a star. — Madonna

Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning. — Richard Roeper

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air. — Jane Horrocks

Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be. — Lt General Brian Horrocks

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear. — Jane Horrocks

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound. — Jane Horrocks

Did you kids have fun?" she asks, and we know she's hoping we'll beg for permission to never go there again. Decca — Jennifer Niven

Each man knows himself, but only God knows all men — Jose Saramago

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked. — Jane Horrocks

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life. — Virgilia Peterson

It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war. — Angelina Jolie

Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems unlikely to succeed, whose first paragraphs risk a raised eyebrow or groan, and whose last paragraphs are then all that much sweeter a triumph. Basically, I love being proved wrong. — Caitlin Horrocks

Five-hundred-fifty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents worth of Christmas decorations. — Heather Horrocks

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying ... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people. — Jane Horrocks

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations. — Jane Horrocks

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice. — Jane Horrocks

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people. — Jane Horrocks

Mimicking people was something I did already. — Jane Horrocks

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people. — Jane Horrocks

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list. — Jane Horrocks