Rita Tushingham Quotes

Rita Tushingham

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 14, 1942

Never forget how precious life is or your loved ones.

Rita Tushingham

I grew up with two brothers with whom I played a rough game of football. If I could take that, I could take anything.

Rita Tushingham

I believe in the lessons of life. Some things are mapped out for us. By that I don't mean that you wait for things to happen, but it's interesting the way our lives are like a jigsaw where sometimes the pieces don't fit - and other times they do.

Rita Tushingham

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

Rita Tushingham

I love Liverpool FC. My dad used to take me to games because he was a shareholder at Everton. When I came down to London, I realised that Liverpool FC was my team.

Rita Tushingham

I was only 18 when I made 'A Taste Of Honey' in the city of Salford, where writer, Shelagh Delaney set it. She was about 19 when she wrote the play based on her experiences of life and what she observed in her community.

Rita Tushingham

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

Rita Tushingham

One day, I read in the newspaper they were looking for an unknown for the film of 'A Taste of Honey.' They auditioned over 2,000 girls for the part of Jo - not as many as they did for 'Annie,' at any rate.

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People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle of a hurricane, you can't describe it till it's over. Creativity was allowed to blossom, we were all allowed this marvelous freedom, there was money to do things.

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People always say, 'Oh, you've played a lot of waifs... ' but they were just girls. It's just that a lot of those everyday characters had never been on the screen before. I do hope I didn't get typed. I feel myself that I tried to do different things with those women.

Rita Tushingham

I dislike snobby people, routine housework and getting up early in the morning, and central heating.

Rita Tushingham

It is important to have a base in life, and from that base you can enjoy it. To me the base is family.

Rita Tushingham

Your profession should give you enjoyment, but it should never be your life.

Rita Tushingham

I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk.

Rita Tushingham

I hate my name. Especially In Liverpool, when they say Hey, Reet... ' it sounds even worse. I don't think of myself as Rita Tushingham, but my mother'd have a fit if I changed it.

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I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.

Rita Tushingham

Believe me, I can be tough, physically and mentally.

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I'm certainly no Cleopatra. I have legs like a schoolgirl and I don't know how I acquired the knack of attracting producers with very attractive offers for very attractive film roles.

Rita Tushingham

After 'Honey' I read the rave reviews and thought I had it made. But it was two-and-a-half years before I was on the screen again.

Rita Tushingham

Just as I was telling myself that I was a one-film actress, it all started to happen, both at home and in my career.

Rita Tushingham