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"You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting."
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"When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate."

"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."
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"Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood."

"I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal."

"At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger."

"To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give."

"I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen."

"There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society."

"I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty."

"Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result."

"I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour."
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