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" As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it. "
Helen McCrory
Body
Confident
Feel
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" If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy. "
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You
Sexy
Important
" I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. "
Helen McCrory
Me
Decision
Happiness
" I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'. "
Helen McCrory
People
Grow Up
Grow
" My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. "
Helen McCrory
Thought
Parent
Parents
" When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born. "
Helen McCrory
Born
Mother
Morning
" I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of. "
Helen McCrory
Nothing
Change
Good
" It's what people create that makes my heart stop. "
Helen McCrory
Create
Heart
Makes
" In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That's lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park. "
Helen McCrory
Children
Together
Sit
" I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country. "
Helen McCrory
Country
Responsibility
Think
" The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself. "
Helen McCrory
Bed
Husband
I Am
" You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam! "
Helen McCrory
See
You
Someone
" Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood. "
Helen McCrory
Me
Her
Looking Forward
" To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends. "
Helen McCrory
Children
Best
Husband
" What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have. "
Helen McCrory
Life
People
Theatre
" I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. "
Helen McCrory
Great
Performance
Start
" I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun. "
Helen McCrory
Hair
Love
Week
" I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours. "
Helen McCrory
Theatre
Love
Me
" I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education. "
Helen McCrory
Listen
Education
Go
" If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of. "
Helen McCrory
Good
Health
Politics
" Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments. "
Helen McCrory
Odd
Films
Moments
" I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it. "
Helen McCrory
Film
Down
Talking
" Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now. "
Helen McCrory
Men
Women
Relationships
" There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life! "
Helen McCrory
Philosophy
Life
Home
" I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it. "
Helen McCrory
Film
More
Appreciate
" I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything. "
Helen McCrory
Love
Music
People
" So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people. "
Helen McCrory
People
Mean
You
" What really matters to me is what my peers think. "
Helen McCrory
Really
Think
Me
" I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! "
Helen McCrory
Food
Life
Money
" I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better. "
Helen McCrory
Sleep
Better
Feeling
" I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here. "
Helen McCrory
Love
Privilege
Children