Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Honor Whitelaw, CBEwas an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 June 1932
almost middle quite rhyme
When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.
morning side stomach wake work
I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.
anyway either far good rubbish social stare sure talk talking time
I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.
hardly school
I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.
jobs time
I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
curtain death frighten frightens life
Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.