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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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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."
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"It was always part of the plan to move into acting."
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"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
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"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium."
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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
Acting
"So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge."
Challenge
"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
Children
"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."
Cruelty
"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."
Job
"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
"They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!"
First
"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
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"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."
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