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Top 20 Celia Imrie Quotes (2025 Update)

Celia Imrie Quote: “Single by choice, just not my choice.”

1. “Single by choice, just not my choice.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.’ I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven’t a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.”

2. “I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.’ I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven’t a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “A ‘naughty pickle’ is how I’d best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.”

3. “A ‘naughty pickle’ is how I’d best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I’ve made great friends through acting. When I’m with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.”

4. “I’ve made great friends through acting. When I’m with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It’s awful and it hurts so many people around you. It’s a terribly selfish thing to do.”

5. “Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It’s awful and it hurts so many people around you. It’s a terribly selfish thing to do.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It’s a double thing. Security and insecurity.”

6. “Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It’s a double thing. Security and insecurity.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I love not knowing what’s going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!”

7. “I love not knowing what’s going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.”

8. “Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “Some people love Sundays; I don’t, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I’ve always loathed. If I didn’t finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I’m a vegetarian now.”

9. “Some people love Sundays; I don’t, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I’ve always loathed. If I didn’t finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I’m a vegetarian now.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I’m a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn’t study acting at a drama school.”

10. “I’m a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn’t study acting at a drama school.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.”

11. “Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “There are actresses who’ve had expensive work done and look great, so I’m not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn’t be for me, perhaps because I’ve already been in hospital and wouldn’t want to volunteer myself for it again.”

12. “There are actresses who’ve had expensive work done and look great, so I’m not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn’t be for me, perhaps because I’ve already been in hospital and wouldn’t want to volunteer myself for it again.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.”

13. “While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I’m a particular favourite with young men with earrings.”

14. “I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I’m a particular favourite with young men with earrings.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.”

15. “I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in ‘Burke’s Peerage.’ My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.”

16. “My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in ‘Burke’s Peerage.’ My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.”

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Celia Imrie Quote: “I’ve had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I’m not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.”

17. “I’ve had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I’m not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I love Monet – I’ve nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it’s a series of blobs – amazing.”

18. “I love Monet – I’ve nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it’s a series of blobs – amazing.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, ‘But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?’ I’ve never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I’ll bother now.”

19. “I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, ‘But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?’ I’ve never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I’ll bother now.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn’t look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn’t have time.”

20. “Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn’t look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn’t have time.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone – I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary – I think it’s the only way to travel from New York.”

21. “I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone – I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary – I think it’s the only way to travel from New York.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “I watch people from the top of buses who don’t know they’re being watched. It’s quite fascinating.”

22. “I watch people from the top of buses who don’t know they’re being watched. It’s quite fascinating.”

— Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie Quote: “Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren’t they? Acting’s weird.”

23. “Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren’t they? Acting’s weird.”

— Celia Imrie

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