Adie, Kate Filmography

• Play in Full Screen As Others See Us

  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen El Alamein: The Soldier's Story

  2011, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Kenny Everett: Licence to Laugh

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Election 97

  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself - Reporter
• Play in Full Screen Diana: The Nation's Farewell

  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself - Reporter
• Play in Full Screen Election 92

  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself - Reporter
• Play in Full Screen Election 83

  1983, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Nine O'Clock News

  1970, role: actress , character name: Herself - War reporter
• Play in Full Screen Crufts Dog Show

  1966, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Kate Adie:

"Not so much deliberate as, I think, instinctive. There is a right time to go looking. Some do it when they are very young, others take a few years. That's why you should never be pressurised by other people. There's a time for everyone. A lot of things probably come together subconsciously, and we say, 'I'm going to do it now.'"

"[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed."

"Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen."

"Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people."

"Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate – it was a Harrods bag'."

"Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing."

"[it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie ever feel like an outsider when the rest share a history that she doesn't?] Curiously, I went to a wedding quite near the start, and when we got to the church this charming man came up and said, 'Bride or groom?' ... Groom! You're with the groom!"

"[Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work, but there are a lot of examples that say, 'Better to leave well alone and do what you can as a reporter.' You do get into situations where you think, 'What should I do? Shouldn't I intervene? Shouldn't I do something?' I think if you get to that point you have to make a decision. I've said to people, if you feel it's wrong just being a reporter and you can't do enough, well it's time to become an aid worker and train to be someone who really knows what to do. No good standing around snapping a notebook."

"[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace."

"The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child – it needs warding off."

"Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds."

"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."

"I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip."

"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."

"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."

"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"

"But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for."

"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."

"No two wars are identical."

"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."