Imelda Staunton movie quotes

“You can't make someone want education.”
Imelda Staunton - Margaret Campbell

“The first 10 years of marriage are just an overture. That there’s often a crisis at 10 years, but then you work it out and settle in and it’s only then that it really gets into its stride.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“In the first flush of a romantic love, we’re all blind. We see only what we want to see.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“Look, I’m strong. You know that. And I can cope with the truth. I just demand to know the truth. It’s when people don’t tell me the truth that I can’t bear it.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“They say listening is important in any marriage.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“To do nothing is often the best course of action, but I know from personal experience how frustrating it can be. History was not made by those who did nothing.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“I am Queen, but I am also a woman. And a wife.

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Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“In an increasingly complex world, we all need certainty.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“Would you like to know the principle, perhaps only advantage, of being the Chief Patron of the English Bowling Association? My fellow patrons are frequently too old or too ill to meet.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“That’s the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along and you realize it was actually happiness after all.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“One always has to accept one’s own part, I believe, in any mess.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“- Dolores Umbridge: A theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.
- Harry Potter: And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what's out there?”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge

“Long ago, people in England sent their children by train with labels around their necks, so they could be taken care of by complete strangers in the country side where it was safe.”

Imelda Staunton - Aunt Lucy

“- Ginger: Think, everyone, think. What haven't we tried yet?
- Bunty: We haven't tried not trying to escape.
- Babs: Hmm. That might work.”
Julia Sawalha - Ginger
Imelda Staunton - Bunty
Jane Horrocks - Babs

“- Fowler: Increase velocity!
- Babs: What does that mean?
- Bunty: It means pedal your flippin' giblets out!”
Benjamin Whitrow - Fowler
Jane Horrocks - Babs
Imelda Staunton - Bunty

“- Paddington: Good morning Aunt Lucy!
- Aunt Lucy: Good morning my little hurricane.
- Uncle Pastuzo: Why do you have to come crushing in here like a natural disaster?”
Ben Whishaw - Paddington
Imelda Staunton - Aunt Lucy
Sir Michael Gambon - Uncle Pastuzo

“A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.”
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“Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.”
Imelda Staunton

“Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.”
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“- Dolores Umbridge: Predict something.
- Sybil Trelawney: Erm. You... are in great danger!
- Dolores Umbridge: Lovely!”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge
Emma Thompson - Sybil Trelawney

“To question my practices is to question the Ministry, and by extension, the Minister himself. I am a tolerant woman, but the one thing I will not stand for is disloyalty.”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge

“- Bunty: Face the facts, ducks. The chances of us getting out of here are a million to one.
- Ginger: Then there's still a chance.”
Imelda Staunton - Bunty
Julia Sawalha - Ginger

“Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged.”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge

“- Det. Inspector Webster: You perform abortions, don't you?
- Vera: That's not what I do dear. That's what you call it. But they need help. Who else they got to turn to? No one. I help them out.”
Peter Wight - Det. Inspector Webster
Imelda Staunton - Vera

“- Viola De Lesseps: I do remember well where I should be, and there I am... where is my Romeo?
- Nurse: [shouting from the audience] Dead!”

Gwyneth Paltrow - Viola De Lesseps
Imelda Staunton - Nurse