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No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.
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I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
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I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'
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I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
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I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
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I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.
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I'm a very good sleeper.
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I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.
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I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.
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But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.
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A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
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Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
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My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
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When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
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Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
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Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.
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I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.
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I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.
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I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.
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I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
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As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.
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A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.
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My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
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I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.
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I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.
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For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.
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I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.
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I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. It's the scripts that tend to be the small arthouse film that tend to be more actor-led and character driven.
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