Jennifer Ehle Quotes

• You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Retreat, Wave, Harm

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• There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

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  Moving, School, Son

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

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  Drama, School, College

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• People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

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  Mother, Fun, People

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• I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.

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  Thinking, Followers, Kind

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• I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

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  Strong, Roots, Choices

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• I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

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  Children, Memories, Thinking

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• I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

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  Prejudice, Determined, Matrimony

  "Pride and Prejudice". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

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  Giving Up, Real, Rich Life

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• I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Years, Clapping, Series

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• So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

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  Quiet, Life Is, Tweet

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• I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

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  Years, Parent, Twenties

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