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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."
"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."
"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."
"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."
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