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Jane Horrocks

"Mimicking people was something I did already."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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"My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic."
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"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
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"Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people."
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"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."
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"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."
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"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound."
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