28 Quotes by Joely Richardson

You grow up by making mistakes. I’ve made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don’t mind.

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there’s a huge number of people up for them. I’m not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

OK, I wasn’t as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I’d spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

I’d love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who’s in the middle of her teens, I’m now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

So often people say something and you realise you haven’t really heard it.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family – Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma – because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd’s Bush – the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film ‘The Palestinian.’ Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

And whatever my weight, I’ve always been skinny from the waist up.

It’s very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don’t recognise myself.