"You can't please all the people all the time."
Miranda Richardson |
"Why did I get into acting? I had an inspiring English teacher in senior school and for a couple of hours each week our class would work on pieces by Shakespeare, or another playwright on the syllabus, in groups, and I grew to love language and rhythm. I remember feeling profoundly connected and knew that something was working, but I didn’t know how or why."
Miranda Richardson
On an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland
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"It sounds very Pollyanna, but when I came out of drama school I just wanted to be utilised. There was no thought of fame as such, just a wish to do good work, get a crack at something and feel my muscles working. For me, this meant five years in rep, playing anything from an obese tea lady to Marilyn Monroe, before a sniff of a screen life. And it was great."
Miranda Richardson
On an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland
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"The business can be hideous, with its fashions and unfairnesses and rejections on a grand scale. If you find an agent who "gets" you, guard him or her with your life."
Miranda Richardson
On an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland |
"I ushered at the theatre, watching shows, and took part in an amateur summer rep."
Miranda Richardson
On an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland |
"It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things."
Miranda Richardson |
"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."
Miranda Richardson |
"And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna."
Miranda Richardson |
"But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised."
Miranda Richardson |
"A Lie of the Mind at the Royal Court was a happy experience for me."
Miranda Richardson
On an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland
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"The pressure to achieve now, the moment you leave drama school - if you even train - is quite daunting, I think. I find the life difficult enough as it is."
Miranda Richardson
On an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland
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| "Bristol Old Vic (BOV) school, smartly advised me to reapply the following year, the implication being that I hadn’t seen enough of the world." Miranda Richardson
On her life before acting
From an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland
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"Having been rejected by Sefton, Merseyside, where I was living at the time. I worked in bars at night and stores and offices by day. I got involved with the local art centre and landed Polly Peachum in Brecht’s Threepenny Opera."
Miranda Richardson
From an interview with The Sunday Times, UK/Ireland |
"It’s sort of irresistible to be part of this great leviathan that is Harry Potter"
Miranda Richardson
On her getting the role of Rita Skeeter
From an interview with Times Online
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"My last line was, ‘Are you looking at my Snitch?’ -
But they wouldn’t let it go out on the air, and I was very sad about that."
Miranda Richardson
On her role as Hermoine Granger
in the 2003 Comic Relief Spoof of
'Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber pot of Azerbaijan' by French and Saunders
From an interview with Times Online |
"On the sense is it’s part of history, and for that reason it’s great, as it would have been to be part of The Lord of the Rings. And I like the fact that kids everywhere are clutching a hardback book to their chests and huddling off into corners, getting absorbed in a new world. It’s not all about looking at a screen, using their thumbs."
Miranda Richardson
On The Harry Potter Phenomenon
From an interview with Times Online |
"But I was a bit nervous of Emma (Watson), I thought she might say, ‘I’m not like that!"
Miranda Richardson
After being casted as Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and her role as Hermoine Granger
in the 2003 Comic Relief Spoof of
'Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber pot of Azerbaijan' by French and Saunders
From an interview with Times Online |
"I thought it was part of a whole series of events and stories that were demonising women, and I thought, ‘It’s so easy. You’ve just played somebody the public term a murderer, and now they want you to do the same again.’"
Miranda Richardson
On turning down the role of Alex Forrest (whos role was given to Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction 1987
From an interview with Times Online |
"[My Career] could have gone in a very different direction".
Miranda Richardson
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"Well, there are all sorts of stories floating around about that one, they were very rude about Jack Palance (who presented the award for best supporting actress that year), and how he misread it. - I don’t think it matters." Miranda Richardson
On not getting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Damage (1992), --- [Marissa Tomei got the award for Best Supporting actress in My Cousin Vinny (1992)]
From an interview with Times Online |
"My mother had decided to do the posh party thing, so we got the hotel room on the prom in Southport. I was wandering around in a daze, in a white frock, and people were saying nice things. And we had Uncle Tex the magician and his assistant pulling doves out of pans and doing the ball-with-cloth trick, then it was the cake moment, and I had to blow the candles out. And I just did a big multicoloured yawn all the way down the table... I think everybody went home after that."
Miranda Richardson
On revisiting her life as a child
From an interview with Times Online |
"Well, they like a bit of novelty in the films, so I’m not convinced they’re gonna ask me back. I don’t know. Watch this space."
Miranda Richardson
On being casted as Rita Skeeter
for the remaining Harry Potter films
From an interview with Times Online |
" I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama."
Miranda Richardson |
"You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it."
Miranda Richardson |
"Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go."
Miranda Richardson |
"I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. And if thats the choice I have to make, I think I've already made it".
Miranda Richardson |
"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."
Miranda Richardson |
Movie/TV title: Alice In Wonderland (1999)
Movie/TV title: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Movie/TV title: Blackadder II
Movie/TV title: Chicken Run
Movie/TV title: Snow White Fairest of Them All
Movie/TV title: The Crying Game
Movie/TV title: Damage
Movie/TV title: Merlin
Movie/TV title: Merlin
Movie/TV title: Wah-Wah
Movie/TV title: Spider
