Charlotte Quotes

I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

It's nice that we have all these different films.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

I used to hate being recognised.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Reader, I married him.

With a sister, one can never fear that success will go to one's head.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.