Caroline Quentin Quotes

Caroline Quentin

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 11, 1960

Mum was a brilliant classical pianist. She was Canadian and studied music at McGill University. She took me to ballet when I was a little girl, and those are some of my happiest memories.

Caroline Quentin

When I was younger, I had such awful, poisonous things written about me: male critics likening me to unattractive animals, and suggesting I should be in a zoo.

Caroline Quentin

I'm interested in how we can change the nature of what's appealing in women so that all this nonsense about how we look, this obsession with Botox, dieting and cosmetic surgery, will just go away.

Caroline Quentin

But through therapy I'm realising I'm allowed to be vulnerable. And I'm allowed to feel shy. And I'm allowed to feel private.

Caroline Quentin

As a woman, you can be funny and 50, but you can't do much else - unless you're Helen Mirren!

Caroline Quentin

I'm a huge fan of Tracey Emin. She's so raw and vulnerable; she's never formed the protective carapace that I formed very early on.

Caroline Quentin

I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that.

Caroline Quentin

I started as a hoofer and all-round chorus girl. I did my first ballet lesson when I was three, then trained as a dancer and went into pantomimes and summer seasons. Acting came later.

Caroline Quentin

I know it sounds cheesy, but I do feel so blessed. I have a great job, I have the best children in the world and I have a darling husband who loves me.

Caroline Quentin

I like to look nice when I go out and I'll put on a bit of slap, but I'm not someone who spends hours looking at myself. I live on a farm in Devon and when I look in the mirror I can see my garden behind me. That's what I'm really interested in.

Caroline Quentin

I don't think I had any idea how much I would love becoming a mother. Although I'm away a lot, my children, Emily and William, are secure. Sam, their father, stays at home with them and I'm at home as much as I can be.

Caroline Quentin

I started out as a dancer and an actor, and I need to remind myself that I can still do theatre.

Caroline Quentin

When I'm home I'm just happier, more at peace and more settled. It's fine being away, but it's not really living.

Caroline Quentin

As an actor, you tend to have to be a bit of a people-pleaser, and I think that I just don't really care about that so much any more.

Caroline Quentin

I started working at 16. I'm 60. I've been working for 44 years.

Caroline Quentin

I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I get very overexcited. But I do get very low, too... I don't know whether it's inherited or learned.

Caroline Quentin