“I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want thin...” — Miranda Richardson Quote

“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.”

“London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.”

“Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.”

“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.”

“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'.”

“I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do.”

“When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That's what I needed in my personal life.”

“I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.”

“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.”

“People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?”