26 Tamsin Greig Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tamsin Greig

English Actress

Born: Jul 12, 1966

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I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity. Tamsin Greig

We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling. Tamsin Greig

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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself. Tamsin Greig

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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. Tamsin Greig

I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it. Tamsin Greig

Stuff Sake Just Want Ever

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that. Tamsin Greig

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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories. Tamsin Greig

Stay More Always Provide Families Same Stories

I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. Tamsin Greig

Woman Trapped Inside Feel Like Dead Body

Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful. Tamsin Greig

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal. Tamsin Greig

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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun. Tamsin Greig

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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out. Tamsin Greig

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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult. Tamsin Greig

Life Become Difficult Suppose Most Conversations Interested Flee

Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it. Tamsin Greig

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood. Tamsin Greig

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I think I'm a bit odd. Tamsin Greig

Think Bit Odd

When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.' Tamsin Greig

Cagney Obsessed Up Lacey Growing Growing Up

If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down. Tamsin Greig

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I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?' Tamsin Greig

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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry. Tamsin Greig

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