Juliet Stevenson Quotes

• It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Men, Interesting, Lambs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Fall, Feelings, Actors

  "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

  Juliet Stevenson

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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• I often don't feel like the person I look like.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Looks, Feels, Persons

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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• I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Jobs, People, Description

  "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Essentials, Rich, Feels

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• In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Together, Theatre, Who We Are

  "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

  Juliet Stevenson

  Thinking, Things In Life, Alive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Perfection, Hollywood, Youth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Brother, Wall, Garden

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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• If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Wall, Artist, Sitting

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• Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Children, World, Bears

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• I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Father, Army, Years

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• I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Two, Clothes, Looks

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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• I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Thinking, Sky, Looks

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• Everything contains its antithesis.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Antithesis

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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• I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

  Juliet Stevenson

  One Thing

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• I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Musician, Actors, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Thinking, Theatre, Sometimes

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• There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Careers, Age, Hiatus

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• I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Regret, Alternatives, Robust

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