39 Quotes by Ol Parker

Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.

The greatest moment of all was her on set, and she said, 'Would you mind if you change the order of the phrase?' Maggie Smith asking me if I could change the line, asking politely, using my name!

The other night my daughter shouted: 'What's that flying out of the window? It's the rules!' So that's how we roll.

You can't let movies get in the way of your life.

I wrote the 'Marigold Hotel' series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it.

Thandie has no interest in race. She thinks it's just a Freudian concept by definition, and there's more genetic difference between a Kenyan and a Ugandan than there is between a Kenyan and a Norwegian... she believes entirely that nationality is nothing but accident.

Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance.

Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.