The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.
More Quotes by Joely Richardson
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.
It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.
So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.
I live quite an unsettled life.
OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.