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" Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage. "
Stage
Actually
People
" 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. "
Working
Meal
Love
" Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned. "
Elderly
Improve
People
" Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump. "
Because
You
Work
" Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit. "
Go
Desire
Strange
" I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day. "
Day
Am
I Am
" I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes. "
Any
Trouble
Read
" I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy. "
Long
Go
I Can
" I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it. "
Advice
Find
Own
" I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. "
Down
Care
Think
" I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. "
Things
Want
Me
" I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor. "
Control
Will
Over
" I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again. "
Why
Lucky
Know
" I love being part of a company, and telling a story. "
Story
Telling
Love
" I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky. "
Love
Running
Work
" In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me. "
Theatre
Contrast
Me
" I need to learn every day. "
Need
Every Day
Every
" In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all. "
Change
Theatre
Control
" It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed. "
Time
Departure
Woman
" I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination. "
Your
Yourself
Job
" I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other. "
Feet
You
Believe
" It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it. "
Before
You
Good
" It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. "
True
Plays
Shakespeare
" I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like. "
About
Always
Going
" It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. "
Hear
Some
Performing
" It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better. "
You
Be Kind
Better
" I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind. "
Done
Always
Loved
" I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do. "
Work
Face
Know
" I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old. "
Get
Got
Had
" I wanted to be a set designer when I was young. "
Designer
Young
Wanted
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