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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
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"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."
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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
Acting
"It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes."
Music
"What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history."
History
"But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me."
Time
"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
Children
"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
Children
"So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge."
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"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."
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"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."
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