Pauline Collins Quotes

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Pauline Collins

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 3, 1940

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

Pauline Collins

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

Pauline Collins

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Pauline Collins

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Pauline Collins

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

Pauline Collins

We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

Pauline Collins

Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

Pauline Collins

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

Pauline Collins