Scacchi Greta Quotes & Sayings

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. — Greta Scacchi

Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world. — Greta Scacchi

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them. — Greta Scacchi

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. — David Nicholls

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you. — Greta Scacchi

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time. — Greta Scacchi

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut. — Greta Scacchi

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. — Greta Scacchi

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love. — Greta Scacchi

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly. — Greta Scacchi

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along. — Greta Scacchi

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal. — Lou Dobbs

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density. — Anthony Albanese

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. — Greta Scacchi

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. — Antonin Artaud

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. — Greta Scacchi

Oh, weep for Adonais - he is dead!
Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!
Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed
Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep
Like his, a mute and uncomplaining sleep;
For he is gone, where all things wise and fair
Descend - oh, dream not that the amorous Deep
Will yet restore him to the vital air;
Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage. — Greta Scacchi

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger. — Greta Scacchi

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work. — Greta Scacchi

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all. — Greta Scacchi

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely. — Greta Scacchi

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up. — Greta Scacchi

I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35. — Greta Scacchi

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything. — Greta Scacchi

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all. — Greta Scacchi

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually. — Christopher Durang

My father was absent and he was a hero to me. — Greta Scacchi

I want to come across as a positive person. — Greta Scacchi

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin. — Greta Scacchi

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now. — Greta Scacchi