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" As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there. "
Miranda Otto
Work
Great
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" I really like research. "
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" It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much. "
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" The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about yourself and other people - and the energy level is great. "
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" It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact. "
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" Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people. "
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" I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected. "
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" Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. "
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" Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read. "
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" Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play. "
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" I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. "
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" I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother. "
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" I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely. "
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" There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move. "
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" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "
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" Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does. "
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" Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable. "
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" You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally. "
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" I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not. "
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" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "
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" I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows. "
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" As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent. "
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" I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think. "
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" I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had. "
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" I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women. "
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