33 Quotes by Eileen Atkins

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

A little allegory of the soul – wherever it hides, God will find it.

It’s a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.

I'm rarely wrong.