Miriam Margolyes Quotes

I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

My style is all to myself.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

I have realized that intensity is my unique point. I don't have to attempt it; it's innate. So, when every actor is seeking his individuality, I guess I have already found mine.

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

More and more, I realise I have a distinct voice, which I didn't realise! You know, it's just my voice. I had no idea. A lot of times, people will say now, 'I recognised you from your voice,' which is interesting to me.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.