Ashley Jensen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Birthday #Children #Wigs
We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Children #Light #America
I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Thinking #Self #Twenties
I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Jobs #Kids #Hats
Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Individual #Be Confident #Offers
Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Years #Tea #Tonight
I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Mean #Thinking #Lines
I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.
-- Ashley Jensen

#People #Never Quit #Vitamins
I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Thinking #Eight #Focus
Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Worry #Lines #Too Much
I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Thinking #Looks #Faces
I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.
-- Ashley Jensen

#People #Saws #Actresses
I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Museums #Smell #Church
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Hands #Clothes #Bears
Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Mind #Scottish #Accents
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Encouragement #Struggle #Parent
I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Children #Thinking #Worry
My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Husband #Holiday #Needs
I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Bars #Littles #Lauren
I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Thinking #People #Decision
It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Morning #Wine #Mean
I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Supermarkets
I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Growing Up #Thinking #People
I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Hollywood #Addresses #Los Angeles
I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!
-- Ashley Jensen

#Distance #Way #Los Angeles

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