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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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"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
Marriage

"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
Children

"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in."
Happiness

"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."
Life

"It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention."
Attention

"I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men."
Men

"I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent."
Talent

"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."
Mother

"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."
Age

"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."
Acting
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