“This Much is True” by Miriam Margolyes – Quotes

[Mohan Gulrajani]

“This Much is True” by Miriam Margolyes – Quotes

1. “I realised then that life could get up and bite you – and now Covid has got up and bitten us all. I know that kindness and gentleness are the most valuable commodities. Now, more than ever, they demand distribution.” P. 157
2. “Pockets are essential in my life, and every garment I own must have them.” P. 37
3. “The goal of life is to end up wiser. But more importantly, I think it should be to end up kinder, both to yourself and everyone around you (unless, of course, their surname happens to be Johnson).” P. 389
4. “The wrinkles which have appeared are the honourable traces of my life: laugh lines rather than frown lines.” P. 382
5. “Happily, my teenage years behind me, I went to university and there I realised that I had a spark of something that was more valuable than beauty: I had energy, and energy is always attractive.” P. 232
6. “For the record, I still know nothing about marijuana or any drug, and don't want to. My drugs are chopped liver and cheesecake - probably equally damaging, but they taste better.” P. 181
7. “it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them.” P. 79
8. “And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss.” P.75
9. “It’s possible that my insecurity is the very quality that connects me to everyone else. I don’t hide my vulnerability. I don’t know how.” P. 8
10. “I entered a precarious profession where a short, fat, Jewish girl with no neck dared to think she could stand on a stage and be successful.” P. 8
11. “I know I'm capable of being outrageous, but I don't do it all the time; at home I'm quiet and boring, preferring to subside into a book or into the computer. I do not have a public persona. I don't assume sweetness for the camera; I'm the same person no matter where I go or what company I'm in. But, like everyone else, I judge which facet of my personality will suit a particular situation and present it. To that extent, I am calculating - but never to conceal, only to reveal.” P. 391
12. “I've become more political as I've got older; I haven't mellowed - I've billowed.” P.363
13. “LA is not my favourite place in the States; I much prefer San Francisco. LA is a strange mix of the exotic and the naff. It's not a city: it's a collection of neurotic neighbourhoods.” P. 292
14. “On the outside, there is all the coquettish pantomime; inside there is the desperate, longing woman.” P.279
15. “Comedy is life, built big perhaps, but always built true.” P. 266
16. “Friends bring out the best in me, and what's what I cherish: they make me feel that I am worth knowing.” P.261
17. “We are all scared. We are all secretly shaking with fright inside, uncertain of what we should be doing, saying and thinking, anxious about what our lives are going to be. I believe that if you can allay those fears, if you can soothe people, and hug them, and make them feel it's going to be all right, you're doing a public service. Often most of us are too busy, or worried, or tired, or just can't be bothered to take on the difficulties that another person is going through. But if you can, it makes the most enormous difference to try to understand the other person, to try to feel their pain, and to see the world through their eyes.” P. 258
18. “I've always wanted to know people. It's curiosity partly, because I can't imagine that people are different from me, and yet I can't imagine anyone being the same.” P.256
19. “It's a humiliation that you don't forget, and even early in life you learn the pain of rejection because your body isn't wanted.” P. 231
20. “I have a silly habit of making knee-jerk and somewhat dogmatic statements which are rapidly proved wrong.” P. 222
21. “That excitement of being in a space with other people all experiencing the same moment, that is the magic of theatre.” P. 176
22. “My happiest moments, really, are just lying in bed with her and gazing at the ceiling and talking about anything and everything. That's my biggest joy. It may be that we will only actually finally get to achieve that when we're both in an old people's home together. I always had the idea that we would build our own and gather all our friends there, and that's what I'd still like to do. There would be a library and a garden and memories shared. And animals. And a swimming pool, with easy steps down.” P. 150
23. “I decided that I must never let an unhappiness go unremarked or uncomforted again, and if I saw anybody unhappy, I would talk to them.” P. 105

 

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Professor (Dr.) M. L. Gulrajani F.S.D.C. (UK)

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