Top 43 Quotes & Sayings by Alex Kingston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Alex Kingston.
Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Alex Kingston

Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston is an English actress. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and the US in the 1990s, including her portrayal of the title role in the British miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) and her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ER (1997–2004).

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.
I normally have a healthy fear of journalists.
One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.
Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.
If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.
In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.'' Now it's, 'Oh, I love you on 'Doctor Who.''
I enjoyed my schooldays, but I thought, 'I've got to get through it, and then my life can start.' — © Alex Kingston
I enjoyed my schooldays, but I thought, 'I've got to get through it, and then my life can start.'
The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
I went through about 13 rounds of IVF before I got pregnant with Salome; it was very tough.
I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.
'Doctor Who' is really challenging and fulfilling on so many levels.
For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.
Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed.
I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I'm not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I'm not so vain.
I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.
I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
In England, there just isn't that fascism of beauty and physicality or whatever. You don't have to look like a gym bunny, all buffed up and a size two. You're not judged the way you are in the States.
To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless. — © Alex Kingston
To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.
Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.
My life isn't interesting enough for anyone to hack my phone.
The cast of 'ER' is very close, and everyone has treated me so well.
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me. — © Alex Kingston
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.
I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.
My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
Cleopatra is one of the roles that I would love to do!
In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.
If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.
I live a very boring life. — © Alex Kingston
I live a very boring life.
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.
I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.
I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.
I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.
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