Brenda Blethyn Quotes

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

I have been thought to have been a secretary when I entered a room.

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.

It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.

I do not have very much office experience.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

I'm very confident in my own ability as a manager.

I worked in an office. I was like an assistant. So, I would just answer phone calls, coordinate events. It was a great day job. I worked with amazing people, but obviously, whenever you are doing something that's not your dream, you kind of feel like, 'Oh, I'm on this grind.'

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I'm quite good.

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.

I wanted to work with Shashank Shah. He is a very clear individual.