62 Quotes by Tamsin Greig

I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.