C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

Every job feels like my first.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.

I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

Woo-hoo! I'm 40. I can say that now.

I went my direction, my direction is whatever I want to go.

Life is really a blessing to be able to do what you love everyday, to learn about yourself. For me it's been about becoming a woman, and I've really enjoyed that experience.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up. Clean up, everybody do your share.

I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all experience mommy guilt. It's always great to have an uplifting support system.

I think people should find themselves being entertained by something that's worth being entertained by.