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Brenda Blethyn

"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."

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Donna Grant

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

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Donna Grant

"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."

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Donna Grant

"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."

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Donna Grant

"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."

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Donna Grant

"The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself."

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Donna Grant

"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."

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Donna Grant

"I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt."

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Donna Grant

"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."

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Donna Grant

"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."

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Brenda Blethyn
"I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period."

Work

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Brenda Blethyn
"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."

Performance

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Brenda Blethyn
"I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones."

Film

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Brenda Blethyn
"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."

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Brenda Blethyn
"Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition."

Ambition

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Brenda Blethyn
"In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside."

Home

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Brenda Blethyn
"I always think 12 times before saying anything."

Saying

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Brenda Blethyn
"I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies."

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Brenda Blethyn
"I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema."

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Brenda Blethyn
"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"

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