Miriam Margolyes: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Self - Host : In England, we don't have religion as part of our public life,. It's a very personal ,individual matter. But in America it really seems to have you by the balls. I don't understand it!

• Self - Host : I didn't know that I would ever feel like crying when I looked at trees.

• Self - Host : Even as well as being one of the greatest writers that ever lived, he was a passionate idealist. Dickens believed in the human spirit. He believed in the soaring capability of the human spirit. He was convinced he was going to find a different kind of humanity. It was an absurd expectation. He left America disappointed and disillusioned and in some ways, I think, disgusted.

• Self - Host : I was a girl guide and my breasts were so large that the commissioner had to make a little detour around me when she was doing the inspection. I think that was the end of uniforms for me.

• Self - Host : Dickens was changed after visiting America. He realized that the human spirit can never be perfect. All Dickens's writing from this time on, was to try to make England, the law, the church, families, better.

• Self - Host : The flagship of the Cunard line is the Queen Mary 2. The largest ship in the world. The largest ship that has ever been built. The largest and possibly the most vulgar ship that has ever been built. It was like a floating Ramada. I wish them well and I wish them a better interior designer.