42 Quotes by Penelope Keith

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.

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I’m not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

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

A lot of people have it – that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

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’m sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people – because the ages don’t mix any more.

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.

I don’t feel ‘vibes’ when I enter a building – don’t feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

I don’t believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.