Lindsay Duncan Quotes

I don't have any desire to be better known.

Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.

I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.