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"I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am."
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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."

"It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape."

"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."

"Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live."

"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."

"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."

"It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people."

"I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did."

"Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve."

"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."
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