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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"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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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"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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"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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"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."
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"My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in."
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"I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?"
Relax
"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."
Love
"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."
Life
"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."
Thought
"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."
Fool
"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
Years
"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."
Being
"I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did."
Mother
"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
Success
"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."
Business
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