Celia Imrie Quotes

• Un "pepinillo travieso" es como mejor me describiría. Creo que la diversión y la risa son la esencia de la vida.

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  Fun, Laughter, Naughty

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• I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

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  Trying, Bags, Mouths

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• I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

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  Knowing, People, Toil

  Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.

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  Sassy, Phoenix, Insecurity

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• There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.

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  Volunteer, Want, Actresses

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• If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

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  Home, Keys, Doors

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• Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.

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  Sunday, People, Meat

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• I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

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  Drama, School, Acting

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• My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

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  Mother, Father, Doctors

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• Nunca fui una chica guapa, así que no era la que se llevaba al chico. Solía presentarme como una buena amiga. A veces me pregunto si lo hago demasiado con los papeles que interpreto, porque si soy totalmente sincera, me gusta bastante ser la mejor amiga, o el papel secundario, y en realidad debería cambiar de marcha y convertirme en la protagonista.

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  Chicas, Deportes, Chicos

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• If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

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  Mother, Children, Party

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• I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

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  Drama, School, Connections

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• While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

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  Girl, Rolling, Stones

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• Soltero por elección, sólo que no es mi elección.

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  Dating, Choices, Exotic

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• I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

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  Men, Laughing, Telling The Truth

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• Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

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  Hurt, Selfish, Love Life

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• I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

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  Laughter, Fun, Acting

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• Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

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  Live Life, Actors, Circus

  Celia Imrie (2011). “The Happy Hoofer”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.

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  Children, Party, Race

  "The gentle art of showing off". Interview With Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

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  Stars, War, Gun

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• Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

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  Anorexia, Awful

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• I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

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  People, Watches, Bus

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• I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

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  Kings, Painting, Monet

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• Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

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  Acting, Goes On, Stage

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• I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

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  Long, Age, Actresses

  "Quote of the Day: Emma Thompson on Fighting for Female Roles and Women’s Rights" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. April 14, 2014.

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