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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to her that I was to go to a drama college.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film was something I didn't really think about when I was young, because if you looked like me, you weren't a film star.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm told I am over-choosy, and I shocked everybody by doing Jeffrey Archer. I did that to annoy everybody; sometimes, between Medea and Virginia Woolf, you can get punch-drunk.
- Dresses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love dresses that just skim the body, that suggest what's underneath rather than display it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate tight, tight stuff showing every line. I want to be sick when people are in Lycra.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.
- Grammar School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad things happen. Cope!
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I imagine I'll retire mid-performance. I'll say, 'Sorry, everyone, I can't do this anymore. I must have suddenly aged.' Then I'll walk off. Yes, I'm sure that's how.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is not in the blood. My parents weren't actors, but I imagine that if you've been brought up with actors, you have a lovely time at home and just want that to carry on.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in remaking television series. I should never have agreed to reviving 'Upstairs Downstairs' because my heart wasn't in it, but part of me did think about my pension.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you've been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That's why I'm still hooked on acting: the terror of the possibility of things going wrong, the thrill when they go right, and the joy of the company.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing friends is the worst thing about getting older.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020