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Quotes by Actress

"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."

"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films."

"And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most."

"I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy."
Life,

"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette."

"I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty."

"I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions."

"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."

"I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower."


"Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that."

"In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."


"Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father."

"But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through."

"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is."

"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."

"They've turned this character into a human being."

"You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused."

"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."

"I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best."

"We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music."

"We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows."

"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine."
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