"Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take."

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"Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

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"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

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"I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna."

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"As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on."

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"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."

Mother

"Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that."

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"You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year."

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"I want more children but for the next three years I want to act."

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"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."

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"I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money."

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"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."

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