“I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed mysel...” — Miranda Richardson Quote

“I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.”

“The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.”

“It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.”

“Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.”

“You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.”

“My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.”

“It's perceived that money can take care of anything but in my experience it makes everything 15 times harder because you can't act 'normal' and you're not allowed to be vulnerable or weak but we all are.”

“Men often project a sometimes overbearing egotism and entitlement because that's what you have to do when you're not allowed to show weakness and need.”

“I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!”

“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”

“I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.”

“There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.”