33 Quotes by Juliet Stevenson

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

I never have time to myself; it’s the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else’s experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don’t know what the alternative would have been.

I’m hardly Hollywood material – they’re interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It’s not a place that’s particularly interested in talent.

I’d rather be useful than rich. It’s more essential to feel you’re doing something that’s worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

I wouldn’t even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.