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Anna Friel

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

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"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

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Donna Grant

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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Donna Grant

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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Donna Grant

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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Donna Grant

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."

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Donna Grant

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."

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Donna Grant

"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."

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Donna Grant

"When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too."

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Anna Friel
"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."

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Anna Friel
"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

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Anna Friel
"For me personally, everything is on a kiss."

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Anna Friel
"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."

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Anna Friel
"David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience."

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Anna Friel
"I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money."

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Anna Friel
"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."

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Anna Friel
"Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that."

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Anna Friel
"We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby."

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Anna Friel
"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."

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