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Catherine Tate Quotes
Catherine Tate
English
Actress
Born:
May 12
,
1968
Life
Me
People
Think
Thought
You
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Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
Catherine Tate
Control
Controlling
Humour
Deflect
Could
Attention
Because
Child
Use
Used
Mechanism
Awkward
Image
Shy
Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.
Catherine Tate
Great
You
Experience
Theatre
People
Stars
Disservice
Right People
TV
About
Casting
Excited
Wrong
Putting
Stunt
Parts
Does
Get
Getting
Just
Being
Theatrical
Them
Right
Lure
Plays
When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
Catherine Tate
Funny
Myself
Me
Confidence
Personality
Made
Become
Gave
Humour
Would
Would-Be
Ginger
Rather
Facility
Had
Around
Built
Subconsciously
Label
Than
Realised
I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.
Catherine Tate
Work
Will
Job
Looking
Whatever
Say
Schedule
Absolutely
Never
Child
Going
After
Asked
Hard
I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
Catherine Tate
Doubt
Gnawing
Wake
Anxious
Realised
Need
Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
Catherine Tate
Bit
Also
Although
Child
Flamboyant
Shy
I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.
Catherine Tate
Funny
Me
You
Yourself
People
Personality
Hair
Controlling
Clothes
Older
Way
Further
Seeing
Part
Look
Got
Labeled
Comment
Get
Any
Want
Decide
Realised
Really
Used
I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
Catherine Tate
Work
Think
Defines
About
Lax
Lazy
None
Am
Quite
Naturally
Who
Actually
Career
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
Catherine Tate
Success
Me
Negative
Incredibly
Back
Relief
Only
Neutral
Person
Any
Going
Form
Success Is
Ever
Default
Set
Position
I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.
Catherine Tate
School
Before
Young
Think
Too
Drama
Finally
Tried
Plugging
Determined
Retrospect
Accepted
Got
Yeah
Times
Get
Just
Which
Central
Away
Four
Started
Kept
Speech
I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.
Catherine Tate
Doctor
Thought
Kid
Scary
Doctor Who
Boy
Fan
Who
There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.
Catherine Tate
Game
Seen
Thinking
Wig
Characters
Someone
Inspiration
New
Come
Heard
Up
Anything
Plan
Use
Game Plan
Expression
Nothing is ever going to be as important or as exciting as a baby. Everyone has their highs and lows, but if you've got that one constant in your life - in my case, a baby - the highs are never going to be as big, and the lows are never going to be as bad.
Catherine Tate
Life
You
Important
Big
Nothing
Baby
Everyone
Bad
Constant
Case
Never
Exciting
Highs
Got
Going
Your
Lows
Ever
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
Catherine Tate
Creativity
Poverty
Feeling
Nothing
Panic
Bit
Hopelessness
Like
I don't like tea! Never have, never drunk it.
Catherine Tate
Drunk
Tea
Never
Like
Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.
Catherine Tate
You
Yourself
People
Writing
Comedy
Joke
Every
Second-Guess
Write
Putting
Stuff
Like
Although
Because
Audience
Line
Want
Successful
Exposing
Thing
Few things focus the mind like fear.
Catherine Tate
Fear
Mind
Focus
Few
Like
Few Things
Things
Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.
Catherine Tate
Better
Criticism
Move On
Something
Take
Move
Personally
Useful
Apply
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