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" Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. "
Learning
You
Thought
" Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what she was doing to this country. "
Government
Legal
She
" As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist. "
Before
Occasion
Pretty
" Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees. "
Virtue
Selfishness
Care
" If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota. "
Woman
Gender
Kind
" If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. "
Strong
Problem
People
" I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all. "
Extraordinary
Women
Interesting
" I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. "
Opposition
Stronger
Your
" I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. "
Old
Look
Growing Old
" I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play. "
Experience
Playing
Any
" It always amazed me - it still does - that people offer me work. And when the theater was my basic bread and butter, every time a show finished, I was convinced I would never work again. "
Bread
People
Me
" I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque. "
Blank
Cheque
Sign
" I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves. "
Thinking
Sitting
Sat
" It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in. "
Nice
Live
Free
" I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. "
Better
Now
Sometimes
" I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do. "
Been
Ambitious
Always
" I've always said the first duty of life is to live it, and I do believe that. And we delude ourselves if we think it's not going to end. How we individually meet that, I think, is entirely individual. "
Life
Believe
End
" I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. "
Want
Good
Good Music
" I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you're actually doing a play. It's not quite 24/7, but it's the work that counts. "
You
Work
Strong
" Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. "
Great
Deal
Work
" My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here. "
Strength
Interesting
Fear
" My job is to see the world through the character's eyes. "
See
World
Character
" My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know - education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government. "
Life
Power
Service
" My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. "
Goes
Tax
Money
" My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through. "
Long
She
Mother
" No, I didn't think of myself as an idealist. I consider myself as a believer in what I regard as the Labour Party's basic principles, which have to do with equality and 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. You know, the golden rules. "
Equality
Myself
Know
" No, I'm not recognized in London. What would people recognize? "
London
People
Recognize
" One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them. "
Small
Most
Very
" Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all good plays which you have to find. And that is part and parcel of ensuring that an audience gets what it's about. "
Good
Character
You
" Rock Hudson. He was an absolute human being. Charming, funny, real. "
Human
Rock
Real
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