Best quotes by Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate
English actress, comedian, and writer
Catherine Jane Ford (born 12 May 1968), better known as Catherine Tate, is an English actress, comedian, and writer. She has won numerous awards for her work on the BBC sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show (2004–2007), as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and seven BAFTAs. Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of Doctor Who, and later reprised her role, becoming the Tenth Doctor's regular companion for the fourth series in 2008.
Following the success of The Catherine Tate Show, Tate starred as Joannie Taylor in the BBC One comedy series Catherine Tate's Nan (2009–2015) and it’s related movie Nan The Movie (2022). In 2011, she began a recurring role as Nellie Bertram in the U.S. version of The Office and was a regular until the series ended. Tate played the role of Miss Sarah Postern in the BBC One sitcom Big School (2013–2014) and played the voice role of Magica De Spell in the animated series DuckTales (2007–2021).
Tate has also appeared in films, including Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007), Gulliver's Travels (2010), Monte Carlo (2011), and SuperBob (2015).
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If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.
At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.
I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.
I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.
Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.
I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.
Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.