"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

Actor, Debt, Depression, Theatre

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

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"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."

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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."

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"It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."

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"Who can worry about a career? Have a life."

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"It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son."

Son

"I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star."

People

"I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."

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"I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be."

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"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."

Fact

"Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences."

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"Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down."

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"There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power."

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