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" As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky. "
You
Look
I Can
" By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards. "
Roads
Life
Long
" England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective. "
Culture
Perspective
America
" Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick! "
Hollywood
Always
Meant To Be
" Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York. "
Go
Myself
New York
" I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am. "
Thinking
Sit
Lucky
" I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way. "
Energy
Way
Who
" If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it. "
Power
I Feel
Play
" I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. "
Out
Being
Pasture
" I have a terrible sense of direction. "
Sense
Terrible
Direction
" I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape. "
Find
Like
Escape
" I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. "
Writing
Art
Letters
" I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career. "
Opportunity
Love
Great
" I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with. "
Sometimes
Hat
America
" I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. "
Someone
Done
Career
" In London, I take the Tube everywhere. "
London
Tube
Take
" In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough. "
Work Hard
Smart
Today
" I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done. "
Work
Done
Doing
" It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much. "
Know
Peaceful
Pretty
" It's very tough when two creative people are together. "
Tough
Creative
People
" I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters. "
Down
Some
Opportunity
" I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way. "
Way
Up
Things
" I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen. "
Than
Acting
Found
" I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before. "
Got
Before
Private Life
" I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing. "
Being Pregnant
Kids
Somebody
" Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood. "
People
End
Going
" My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. "
Music
Classical Music
Family
" My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. "
Academic
He
Father
" My job now is to work hard and learn all I can. "
Work
I Can
Job
" North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A. "
Part
Most
Valley
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