Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Patricia Routledge

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Patricia Routledge.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, is an English actress, singer and broadcaster with one of the longest careers of an entertainer, spanning more than 70 years. For her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993. Her film appearances include To Sir, with Love (1967) and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968).

English - Actress | Born: February 17, 1929

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There's a fashion abroad generally to speak the language as badly as possible. I'm of a mind to start a society for the reinstatement of the letter 't' and the banishment of the glottal stop.

Patricia Routledge

I've only done what I've really wanted to burn up energy on. If you can't wake up in the morning and look forward to what you're going to do in the evening - and twice on a Wednesday and a Saturday - then it's not worth doing.

Patricia Routledge

I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.

Patricia Routledge

We finished series four of 'Hetty Wainthropp', we were told there was going to be series five.

Patricia Routledge

People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life.

Patricia Routledge

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total.

Patricia Routledge

But it would be churlish of me not to appreciate what it's brought me. If a good number of people come into a theatre because they know me from the dreaded 'Mrs B', I couldn't be happier.

Patricia Routledge

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values my parents brought to their own relationship and to their children. They wanted my brother and me to find out what we were best at and make the most of it.

Patricia Routledge

I had a voice - I had an instrument - I loved singing and I had an inspired singing teacher, Miss Sleigh. I went to her every Saturday, and I now possess the upright Steinway piano beside which I used to stand in fear and trembling if I hadn't done my breathing exercises.

Patricia Routledge

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Patricia Routledge

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