"I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me."

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Source : "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

Jenny Eclair

#Jobs Quotes #Cat Quotes #Vision Quotes

“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

Source : "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.
“The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.”
“I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 4, 2009.
“I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.”
“Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.”

Source : "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.
“Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.”
“Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.”
“I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.”

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