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17 quotes by Dinah Sheridan

Dinah Sheridan (17 September 1920 – 25 November 2012) was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970); the long-running BBC comedy series Don't Wait Up (1983–90); and for her distinguished theatre career in the West End.
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The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

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I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

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Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down... →

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Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

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After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

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But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

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I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

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I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.

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I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.

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It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

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So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

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They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

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