Juliet Stevenson Quotes

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

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

Everything contains its antithesis.

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

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

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.