A biography for Eileen Atkinshasn’t been written yet.
“My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.”
“My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.”
“People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.”
“One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.”
“I have never been able to bear people who are obsessed with beauty.”
“When I think of all the Hamlets I've seen, there's been a load of different styles, some marvellous. You like the Hamlet you saw when you were the right age to think you could be Hamlet.”
“I love dresses that just skim the body, that suggest what's underneath rather than display it.”