Quotes By Dinah Sheridan

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

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

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 the railway track.

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

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

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

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

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

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

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

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

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

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

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