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- Nov 07, 2020
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- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kristin Scott Thomas is terrific. She has a career in France and a career in England: how cool is that? I wouldn't mind that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of anything better than being considered a poster girl for intelligent women.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is still totally rocking it. She's appearing in 'Game of Thrones,' which is massively cool.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do some manual labour.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having brothers - I love that. They don't take any rubbish, and they beat you up if you've been misbehaving.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did ballet as a child and started again seven years ago. I love that you hear this exquisite music, and for a moment, you feel like a thing of beauty; it's changed my awareness of my body.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.
- Herself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're in this heightened emotional state from the beginning of the play. It's like when you first have your heart broken.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.
- Expensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really resent how expensive everything is in London.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My pa is a brilliant, charming man. We go out and play together and laugh a lot. He has a twinkle in his eye.
- Cleverest
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum says I never had tantrums. I had elongated and very complicated tea parties in my cot, and I was sort of talking, I guess, quite young, and I would say, 'Oh, how lovely to see you, do come in!' I'd have these theatrical tea parties by myself with my imaginary friends.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love growing older. Normally, I don't bother with make-up. This face in the mirror is changing. I've got new lines from smiling at the sprog so much.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ambitious' is seen as a dirty word, especially when it comes to women. But what being ambitious actually means is to achieve distinction in your chosen field.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I panicked in my 20s and 30s about whether I was doing the right thing. I was an excited puppy, wanting to please people and feeling guilty that I'd had a privileged education and an acting career.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theatre always felt like home, and it does to this day. When I do screen acting, I miss telling a story from beginning to end, as you do nightly on stage. I love that relationship with the audience and how it changes each night.
- Another Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really Bond girl material, and that's fine by me. I'm a grafter; I'm not a star.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like cake, I swear a lot, and I hardly ever go to the hairdresser. I don't think I'm a movie star.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire to anorexia.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I went to audition for the first Daniel Craig Bond film, 'Casino Royale.' I was there in this Versace dress, and I remember looking in the mirror, and I couldn't have felt less like a Bond girl if I tried.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sense of shame that comes with unemployment. I didn't become a movie star, and I was a size 14.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to outshine each other. Whereas if you have 14 of those actors trying to shine a light on one person, and each of them is trying to make the other look good, you have a much more interesting process.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I'd either be there or Scotland.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scotland was home to me from when I was 12 up until I was 22. I decided to drop my English bit, and when anyone asked where I came from, I always said Scotland. It really shaped the fibres of my being.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get asked to play a part that makes you feel frightened, then you have to do it. 'Medea' is the opportunity of a lifetime.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always hate it when I hear actors talking about the process of what they do, so I'll keep my thoughts to myself.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a bit of a Bertie Wooster about my father. He's very easy-going, he never judges people, and we get on brilliantly.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel sexier in my 40s than I did in my 20s and 30s.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I'd been born ten years earlier when Ma was at the height of 'Avengers' fame, it would have been a different kettle of fish altogether, but she was very much a ma first and an actress second for my formative years.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember typing up my dissertation sitting in a horse box - I didn't qualify for a caravan - on a set in Pinewood on my first film, 'Still Crazy.'
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been kind of quite porky and happy at boarding school and not self-conscious at all; then, suddenly, I found myself in auditions being examined, and it made me angry.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like a character who makes me laugh.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't change the way I talk for anyone. I'll do it for work but not because I think someone will like me more if I take the edge off.
- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020