Samantha * Quotes

I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.

I'm not even reading about the U.S. election, I'm just totally involved in the Canadian one.

I know, it's amazing to people that we have a political system, but we do.

I can't claim to feel like I've been under some man's thumb in comedy. I've sort of always done my own thing for better or worse, and have been lucky enough to be able to perform ever since.

President Trump - God forbid - the country will be okay, I promise. I don't know exactly what the country will look like, but we will survive it.

I'm good at asking other people questions, but I'm not really good at answering questions.

Nobody wants to have things blurted at them.

It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.

I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to get the story right. I'd rather do it right than have to do it twice.

I don't read anything about myself.

I don't feel like any of the things we're talking about are going to make the world end.

More people need to inhabit this world.

I want to go to someone's world. I'll buy it if the world is full of zombies - I'll live there if you give me a strong enough vision of what that world looks like.

Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.

I am a cookbook fanatic.

I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.

We weren't too stressed out, this morning we just knew that if we had strong, good swims we would be fine, so it was actually a lot of fun.

Sometimes sweat is the best form of therapy.

Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.