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"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
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"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
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"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."
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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
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"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."
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"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."
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"It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in."
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"And the reason for that I think is that in Australia our films don't get the exposure, so the process is foremost. But anyway, I love being part of the team and hate being stuck in a corner somewhere."
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"I love being part of the team."
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"That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off."
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"I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product."
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"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
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"You don't choose. I just go where the work is."
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"It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'"
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