Penelope Keith Quotes

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
Penelope Keith

Gardening, Great, Future

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Penelope Keith

Shyness, Depth, Egoism

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.
Penelope Keith

Time, History, Lord

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
Penelope Keith

Success, Everything, Everyone

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.
Penelope Keith

Human, Used, Television

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.
Penelope Keith

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.
Penelope Keith

Friendly, Down, Place

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
Penelope Keith

Work, Stop, Asked

I love touring, I really do.
Penelope Keith

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
Penelope Keith

Life, Time, Live

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.
Penelope Keith

Sad, Become, Sitcom

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.
Penelope Keith

Beautiful, Black, House

I'm a realist.
Penelope Keith

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
Penelope Keith

Love, Husband, Against

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.
Penelope Keith

Why, Young, Old

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
Penelope Keith

Book, Thinking, Else

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.
Penelope Keith

Age, Great, Nice

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.
Penelope Keith

Everyone, Ugly, Language

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
Penelope Keith

May, Happen, Young

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.
Penelope Keith

Work, Give, Often

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?
Penelope Keith

Life, Best, Character

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
Penelope Keith

Mother, Sure, Paper

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.
Penelope Keith

School, Wonderful, Everyone

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.
Penelope Keith

Play, Reason, Comedy

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

Home, Young, Television

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Nationality: British

Born: April 2, 1940

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