42 Quotes by Penelope Keith

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.