Cherie Lunghi Quotes

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• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Art, Book

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• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Nice, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Being Yourself, Women, Keys

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• I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Next Day, Sound, India

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• I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Political, Television, Grew Up

  "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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• I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Botox, Want, Stuff

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• I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sex, Heart, Trying

  "Strictly Come Dancing exclusive: Cherie Lunghi: 'I'm too old to be a sex symbol'", www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2008.

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• Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mad, Generations, Envelopes

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• I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Actresses, Tvs, Break

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• I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Glasses, Mirrors, Getting Older

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• I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why does she put him down in public? or, Why is he so rude to her? It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mother, Couple, Thinking

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• It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Headache, Perfectionist, Satisfied

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• I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Men, Needs, Defined

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• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sleep, Cities, Elephants

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• I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Botox, Remember

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• To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Morning, Yoga, Dancing

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• I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Jobs, Single Mom, Two

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• I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Thinking, Want, Quiet

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• I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Frustrated, Brain, Impatient

  "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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• Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Drama, Tvs, Profile

  "Strictly Come Dancing exclusive: Cherie Lunghi: 'I'm too old to be a sex symbol'". www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2008.

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• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

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  Mother, Father, Bird

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• I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

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  Father, Home, School

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• People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Men, People, Might

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• I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Hate, Sitting, Way

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• There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Age, Way, Pressure

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