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Jacqueline McKenzie

"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."

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Donna Grant

"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."

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Donna Grant

"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."

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Donna Grant

"Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."

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Donna Grant

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

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Donna Grant

"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

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Donna Grant

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

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Jacqueline McKenzie
"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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Jacqueline McKenzie
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."

Theatre

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Jacqueline McKenzie
"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."

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Jacqueline McKenzie
"You don't choose. I just go where the work is."

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Jacqueline McKenzie
"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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Jacqueline McKenzie
"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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Jacqueline McKenzie
"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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Jacqueline McKenzie
"I love being part of the team."

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Jacqueline McKenzie
"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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Jacqueline McKenzie
"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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