Tamsin Greig famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I did used to like trampolining, but Iâ€™m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and Iâ€™ve had three children.
-- Tamsin Greig

#Strong #Children #Past
On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
-- Tamsin Greig

#Mother #Father #Sides
It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
-- Tamsin Greig

#One Day #Married #Leafs
When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive.
-- Tamsin Greig

#Thinking #Two #Acting
Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.
-- Tamsin Greig

#Thinking #Play #Mind
Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence.
-- Tamsin Greig

#Mother #Country #Drama
It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.
-- Tamsin Greig

#Interesting #People #Arses
There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.
-- Tamsin Greig

#Thinking #Laughing #Pieces

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

Tamsin Greig famous quotes

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