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Miriam Margolyes
7 quotes
“I was in my late twenties when I told my mother. [...] I spoke to her about an affair with a woman and three days later she had this stroke.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I now regret it because it caused the person I loved the most pain she could not bear. I should have been aware that to tell her was very wrong. It also hurts me that she was not then able to live to see my success.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed on Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4), as cited in "Margolyes's gay confession led to mother's stroke", The Sunday Times (28 September 2008)
“[On mortality] If you are a Jew, and I am, it is not a subject that is ever far away. The Holocaust, in which I lost no one I knew, scarred me forever. And my life is informed by knowledge of it. I'm a jolly little soul but at the back of the jollity there is a knowledge of despair.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Miriam Margolyes: 'I'm still a naughty schoolgirl at heart'", The Telegraph (11 October 2009)
“The umbilical cord was never completely cut, metaphorically speaking, so I still feel massively connected to them long after their deaths. But I also happen to think that being an only child is inevitably damaging in some way because it too intensely focuses you on your parents and deprives young people of the socialising they must experience in order to fruit properly. I was terribly anxious to make friends; and I'm still needing people rather more than I should be, even at this advanced age.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Maureen Paton, as cited in "Miriam Margolyes: I had no secrets from my mother", The Guardian (2 June 2012)
“[On the TV series Miriam's Big Fat Adventure] I've always been fat and you're not supposed to be fat, so my built-in rebellion starts with the very flesh that I inhabit.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For 11 years they must have had intercourse but never complete[ly], but in the air raid, in the heat of the terror, I was created.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Tanya Gold, as cited in "'I feel compelled to be disgraceful': Miriam Margolyes interviewed", The Spectator (7 March 2020)
“Nobody thinks they've had the career they deserve. And I want to be as important as Judi and Maggie and all the others, you know. And I think I'm bloody good — but nobody else agrees with me.”
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source