Jane Horrocks People Quotations

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

Quiet, quiet people become intriguing when they're dramatized.