Anouska Hempel Quotes

Anouska Hempel

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 13, 1941

Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness.

Anouska Hempel

My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.

Anouska Hempel

India. From Goa to Kerala and Mumbai, it gets me every time. It's the food, the people, and the colours. The magical atmosphere and the accepting nature of the locals.

Anouska Hempel

Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.

Anouska Hempel

I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast.

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I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

Anouska Hempel

I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.

Anouska Hempel

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.

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Sure, I'm hyperactive. I make my staff a bit hyper, too, but motivating someone else is what gives me a buzz.

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I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.

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I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

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From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.

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Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

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Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

Anouska Hempel

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

Anouska Hempel