Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardsonis an English stage, film and television actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger in 1985 and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damageand Tom & Viv. For Damage, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also won Golden Globe Awards for Enchanted Apriland the TV film Fatherland...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 March 1958
beach lying whales
I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.
people please cant
You cant please all the people all the time.
want angst
I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.
believe roles ifs
If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.
different resilient feels
It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.
london gob grounded
London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.
thinking theatre lucky
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
roots britain stills
My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
moving difficult decided
It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.
design personality eccentric
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
children opportunity creative
Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
stars jobs feel-better
If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
drama character essence
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.