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" Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. "
Kristin Scott Thomas
People
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Edge
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" I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully. "
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" In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.' "
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" I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look. "
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" As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now. "
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" As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. "
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" I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. "
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" I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. "
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" I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it. "
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" It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet. "
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" Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. "
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" I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. "
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" After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. "
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" I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32. "
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" At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers. "
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My Own
" With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7. "
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" I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. "
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