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"There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras."
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"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."
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"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."
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"I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer."
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"I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf."
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"The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either."
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"When the whole point of Queen was to be original."
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"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces."
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"There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in."
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"I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth."
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"We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen."
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"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."
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"They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'"
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"Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe."
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"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."
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"I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it."
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"I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity."
Character
"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more."
Children
"I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do."
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"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."
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"What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English."
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