I’d love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who’s in the middle of her teens, I’m now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over? – Joely Richardson
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. – Joely Richardson
There’s still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses. – Joely Richardson
I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good. – Joely Richardson
So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family – Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma – because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories. – Joely Richardson
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong. – 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. – Joely Richardson
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. – Joely Richardson
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. – Joely Richardson
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. – Joely Richardson
Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there’s a huge number of people up for them. I’m not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film. – Joely Richardson
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. – Joely Richardson
The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession. – Joely Richardson
