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"That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself."

"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before."

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before."

"Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly."
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"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."

"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."

"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."

"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."

"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."

"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."

"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."

"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."
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