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
thinking giving dumb
In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.
thinking nuts people
I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.
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.
jobs moving thinking
It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
thinking doctors ideas
It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.
corner english-actress hope
But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.
beach childhood use
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
garden house needs
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
tolerance walks around-the-corner
I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.
attitude laughing los-angeles
You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.
dames way
And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.
holiday years wildlife
For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.
waiting want roles
I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.
ideas would-be persona
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.