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Top 20 Penelope Keith Quotes (2025 Update)

Penelope Keith Quote: “Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”

1. “Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.”

2. “In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I’m a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I’m in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.”

3. “I’m a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I’m in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”

4. “I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “A lot of people have it – that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.”

5. “A lot of people have it – that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “Young people don’t want to sit at home and watch television; they’d sooner be out doing their own thing.”

6. “Young people don’t want to sit at home and watch television; they’d sooner be out doing their own thing.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I’m not against accents – my husband’s from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We’ve just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.”

7. “I’m not against accents – my husband’s from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We’ve just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I’m not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?”

8. “The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I’m not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?”

— Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith Quote: “Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.”

9. “Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I’m sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people – because the ages don’t mix any more.”

10. “I’m sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people – because the ages don’t mix any more.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “We have this wonderful language and we don’t appreciate it. That’s old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.”

11. “We have this wonderful language and we don’t appreciate it. That’s old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can’t actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we’ve all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.”

12. “In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can’t actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we’ve all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.”

— Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith Quote: “I don’t believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.”

13. “I don’t believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I think it is very sad that ‘sitcom’ has become a pejorative term.”

14. “I think it is very sad that ‘sitcom’ has become a pejorative term.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.”

15. “Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I don’t feel ‘vibes’ when I enter a building – don’t feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.”

16. “I don’t feel ‘vibes’ when I enter a building – don’t feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I think I’m a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn’t want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.”

17. “I think I’m a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn’t want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.”

— Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith Quote: “I don’t think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.”

18. “I don’t think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “With a play, you do it and it’s gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.”

19. “With a play, you do it and it’s gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I love touring, I really do.”

20. “I love touring, I really do.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn’t rustle in the middle of a performance.”

21. “We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn’t rustle in the middle of a performance.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.”

22. “I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.”

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Penelope Keith Quote: “So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn’t give them the insight into how other people work.”

23. “So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn’t give them the insight into how other people work.”

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