Curtains Quotes

At home things are hard. For instance, my curtains are never open, I get no privacy at all. In fact, I can`t remember the last time I saw daylight in my house.

Her thoughts on modern women versus the queens of the era of Jodhaa Akbar (2008): I consider myself lucky to be born in today`s era where a woman has far more freedom to exercise her rights. It took them ages to get ready for one appearance, and imagine staying behind curtains all day long. (2008)

It`s just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I`m in my boxer shorts and shirt. I`m going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it`s really dark in the room.

(on "The Ball Room Dance" scene, her favorite from Labyrinth (1986)): I wore a beautiful silver ball gown, which was a refreshing change from the blue jeans I wore in almost every other scene. It was really a gorgeous set, with masses of huge chandeliers and thousands of flickering candles, hundreds of silken cushions and curtains, and masses of people in strange masks and ornate dresses. There was the thrill of dancing with David Bowie to one of the songs he composed especially for the film. There wasn`t enough room, for technical reasons, to really dance around properly, but we just drifted slowly and gracefully (I hope!) to David`s music, and he looked fabulous! It`s all a sort of magical fantasy sequence inside a huge bubble.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

It`s the very British thing of reserve and keeping everything shut in, that`s what people do with their emotions, shut the curtains on them.

It`s the very British thing of reserve and keeping everything shut in, that`s what people do with their emotions, shut the curtains on them

In most people`s vocabularies, design means veneer. It`s interior decorating. It`s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

I never feel I am playing characters. I play certain states, certain ranges of emotions, certain feelings. The contours of a character are something very vague. Initially, when I read a script, I have certain pieces or images that come up to the surface. I guess the difference would be between abstract painting and figurative painting. An established character would be more like a figurative painting: you have to paint this room, you have to paint the curtains, and so on. I think it`s more interesting to consider acting as non-figurative painting. As a canvas on to which you throw things. It can be a colour, it can be a rhythm, it can be music. And it`s also a vision of yourself. When I read the script of Ma Mère, I thought it was very difficult to do. Because in principle it`s a story about incest, even though it`s much more than this. I hesitated a lot over whether I was going to do it, and I had this very fugitive impression of the role - for me it was like a flame. I saw this woman as a little bit of fire, being very unstable, rickety, not very steady on her feet. I had this vision of my body - sometimes that`s enough.

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

It`s like a cast of actors; you`re all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it`s like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

We discovered that members were being deprived of an important opportunity to ask questions and speak freely among themselves. Families have curtains for a reason, and that is to provide them with a certain level of privacy as they develop relationships. The same can be true of a caucus.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

It appears as if a candle left on a wooden china hutch ignited the top of the hutch and spread to some curtains,