Author: Penelope Keith

Quotes

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

- Penelope Keith

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

- Penelope Keith

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

- Penelope Keith

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

- Penelope Keith

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

- Penelope Keith

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

- Penelope Keith

I love touring, I really do.

I love touring, I really do.

- Penelope Keith

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

- Penelope Keith

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

- Penelope Keith

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