Dinah Sheridan Quotes (22 Quotes)


    I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

    So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

    While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

    They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

    I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.


    But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

    During the last week of location work out on the Yorkshire moors near Howarth, I learned that I had become a Grandmother for the first time.

    But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

    Suddenly everyone wanted to employ me, but I discovered that my new husband wouldn't allow me even to think about acting.

    What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

    Because of double hip replacements, I don't play regular golf, but we do lots of putting with delightful people. It's most enjoyable.

    After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

    The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

    Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

    I told my agent to not tell me about any offers - I didn't want to be tempted - so I didn't learn until years later that he had turned down a lot of films including The Court Jester with Danny Kaye and The Million Pound Note with Gregory Peck.

    Lionel had never directed before, but, as an actor, he was sensitive to the reactions of actors, and he did a magnificent job.

    I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

    Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

    It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

    It has always been my belief that it is harder to laugh than to cry on the screen.

    A subtle comedy part, I think, requires more finesse than a heavy dramatic role.

    Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.


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