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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to discover more things about acting.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
- Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
- American Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
- Exposing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think, 'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020