23 Quotes by Jennifer Ehle

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

I really never get recognized at all for anything.

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.