Alex Kingston Quotes

• Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

  Alex Kingston

  Children, Thinking, America

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• It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

  Alex Kingston

  Important, Shy, Body

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• I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

  Alex Kingston

  Baby, Successful, Thinking

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• I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

  Alex Kingston

  Strong, Husband, Insecure

  "Intensive care" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2002.

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• I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

  Alex Kingston

  Mother, Art, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

  Alex Kingston

  Stress, Hate, Might

  "Intensive care" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2002.

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• In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

  Alex Kingston

  Children, Doctors, England

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• One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

  Alex Kingston

  Parent, World, Rooms

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• I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

  Alex Kingston

  Pain, Thinking, Validation

  "I've never been an ingenue" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2008.

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• If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

  Alex Kingston

  Life Is, Like You, Feels

  "Intensive care" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2002.

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• I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

  Alex Kingston

  Zero, Size, Here And Now

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• Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

  Alex Kingston

  Shadow, Hollywood, Fame

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• Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

  Alex Kingston

  School, Bully, Wanted

  "I've never been an ingenue" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2008.

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• Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  Cynicism, Californians, British

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

  Alex Kingston

  Thinking, Race, Opposites

  "Intensive care". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2002.

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• I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

  Alex Kingston

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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