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Anna Friel

"It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

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Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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Donna Grant

"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."

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Donna Grant

"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

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Donna Grant

"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

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Donna Grant

"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."

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Donna Grant

"For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids."

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Donna Grant

"You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere."

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Anna Friel
"I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna."

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Anna Friel
"I've never been onstage in my life."

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Anna Friel
"The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in."

Character

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Anna Friel
"It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors."

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Anna Friel
"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."

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Anna Friel
"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

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Anna Friel
"Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take."

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Anna Friel
"I want more children but for the next three years I want to act."

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Anna Friel
"For me personally, everything is on a kiss."

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Anna Friel
"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."

Baby

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