Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Kathy Burke
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Kathy Burke.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I love stay-at-home dads. I think that is so brilliant. If I knew in my 20s you could... meet someone and have kids and he would be happy to be the one the bringing up the children maybe I would have done it.
I had this laddish way about me, with my deep voice and telling jokes all the time; I was Burkey, the little fella in a skirt.
I'm very much a person who walks on egg shells.
I fell out of love with acting and in love with directing.
I can smell trouble miles away.
With trans people, I just think you can't help the way you are born, though. You know, it's DNA, it's genetics. I'm just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they're trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous - it's a minority of people.
When 'Nil By Mouth' was released, people thought that's what we were actually like, that they'd put me and Ray in front of the cameras and filmed what came out. No acting involved.
I was always playing very stupid people, or the fat mate of the main girl.
I've never been motivated by the money, always by the work.
It's very nice to be greeted in the street and all that, but I actually don't care what other people think of me.
I used to be terribly aggressive in my twenties.
I was born to play Miss Grizzlesniff. I've got lots of friends that are little humans who are very excited about me being in 'School Of Roars.'
I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood.
When I first decided to take off the tap shoes and concentrate on theatre directing, Dominic Dromgoole got in touch to ask if I'd like to do something with Oxford Stage Company. My reaction was negative.
I thought, 'Could I ever call myself ugly as a character?' And it was like, 'Yeah, I'd love to be able to say stuff like that.'
I had two older brothers who kept dirty mags under their mattresses. They didn't know I knew.
I'm totally happy with my big, fat self.
Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that's not great for a performer. They have to feel that what they're conveying is honest.
I used to get defensive when people asked me, 'Is it the control that you like about directing?' I used to say, 'No!' But now I'm older, I say, 'Yeah, it absolutely is!'
I've got faith in my own talent and I always have.
I didn't want to go anywhere because I hated being a woman during my menopause. I was like 'why am I a woman?' I couldn't bear it.
In fact, I didn't realize I was 'unattractive' - in inverted commas - until I started acting. It was, 'Oh no, you're not right for the part - we're looking for a pretty girl.'
Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.
I'm a beautiful person, I know I am.
I'm getting really fed up with the way that girls and women get portrayed a lot of the time.
I look at myself in the mirror and think I'm gorgeous.
I went through moody broody... well, I met one person and I thought 'if I am going to have a child with anybody it is going to be with this guy. Anyway it didn't happen because he had a girlfriend and I tried not to sleep with people if they had girlfriends.
I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.
I have always believed that women should be allowed to do what they want to do.
I was losing the buzz of going on stage - and getting a bit tired.
I'm quite a solitary person. I like being on my own.
I was a very lame skinhead. I had to be in by 8:30 P. M., so I used to pretend that I had a baby sister I had to go home and baby-sit.
I had that C.difficile hospital bug that everyone is going on about. It was an experience. There's not much they can do. They just let you get on with it. It's a breakdown of the whole immune system.
Audiences don't need to be patronized by being shown in period things how much people smoked.
I didn't really feel like a girly girl. I didn't want to wear boob tubes and flared trousers and disco clothes. Then when punk came along it was like, 'Oh great, I can wear ripped jeans and manky t-shirts and flat caps.' It was just perfect timing for me.
I'm happy to be selfish now. That's the beauty of getting older.
It can be seen as being quite selfish, but I'm very happy to be selfish.
I'd always been dead against therapy. I didn't think you needed to pay someone to talk about yourself.
People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know. Saucy. Doing his own thing.
When I'm on me island, I want to dance.
I'm knocking on 50, and I'm still getting recognized for playing a 14-year-old boy. It makes me think I must still look great!
I'm a good people manager and I like that fact I can draw out their performances.
I don't half love being in my forties! You feel more grown-up and can say 'no' to things without feeling you're letting the whole team down. You don't have to worry about pleasing other people all the time. You just feel more comfortable in yourself.
Twenty years ago I brought young, unknown film maker Joe Wright with me to a private show of 'Nil by Mouth.' Gary Oldman asked me if he was any good. I said, 'give it a few years and he'll direct you in a film that will win you an Oscar.'
From a very young age I'd learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I'd always make jokes if anybody tried to throw sympathy at me.
If we want equality, we shouldn't then expect to be praised just because we're doing a certain job. That's not equality.
I don't go there any more. I think I've done my time at the Red Lion.
I get very excited by these hoity-toity directors with their bells and whistles, but I find simple storytelling done really well just as exciting.
What's important to me is that the ego hasn't taken over.
But the more successful I became as an actor, the less control I had. I became more of a puppet, really. It certainly felt like that, at least.
I much prefer to meet actors that are really into the play rather than into the part.
I needed a check-up from the neck up.
It bloody annoys me when people forget that we're actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents, saying dialogue that comes naturally to us, people think we're just being ourselves.
I do what I wanna do and I see who I wanna see. And when you get into your forties, it's like being a teenager again, really. Everyone else in their forties thinks they can chat to you.
What I enjoy most about directing is the chance of working things out with the writer, plus I need their approval and I like the chat.
There's a great difference between innocence and ignorance.
The thing with me is that I'm quite arrogant.
I didn't want to work on dry, old plays written by the dry, old dead.
Because I didn't have a Mum - she died when I was a baby - my Dad was told by people in authority that it was best for me to go to a convent school.
I had to prove that I could understand other aspects of human beings and not just little fat girls.
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