Top 25 Quotes by Penelope Keith

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.

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

I'm a realist.

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.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

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

I love touring, I really do.

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

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.

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.