Zitat des Tages von Penelope Keith:
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.
In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.
I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.
