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" I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career. "
Ruth Bradley
Focused
Love
Career
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" I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me. "
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Me
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" You just don't know who you could fall in love with. "
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" I think when you work with older actors, who are so good, it's rare that they are egotistical. "
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" When I was filming in Budapest for ITV's 'Titanic,' I realised I'd never been to the ballet before so decided to see a production of 'Giselle.' I went on my own. As it was my first ballet, it was a very bizarre and interesting experience but very enjoyable. "
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Experience
My Own
" If you're aware of a pattern, you can do something about it, and you can be aware of your own culpability. I like to think I can do that, but, like everyone else, I'm a work in progress. "
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You
Progress
" My job is not to be a supermodel. "
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Job
Supermodel
" I live in trainers and baggy clothes, but on the red carpet, I either go for something very pretty from Temperley London or a structured Roland Mouret dress. "
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Clothes
Go
Red
" In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders. "
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Good
Writing
Piece
" I'm only ambitious in the sense that I want to work in as many different media as I can and to play characters which are different to me and to each other. I want to do work that frightens me or challenges me, be it in Dublin or Zimbabwe. I just want to be working. "
Ruth Bradley
I Can
Me
Media
" There is so much room for gender-neutral characters. "
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Characters
Much
Room
" On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They're all looking down at their screen. "
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Looking
See
Eye
" A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens. "
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Friend
Thought
Mother
" If you think about it, there's very little about young families on TV, and yet there's so many of them. "
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Little
Many
TV
" I really enjoy 'Mad Men,' but I'm hugely into 'Homeland.' The characters are very well drawn and complex. "
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Well
Complex
Homeland
" It's not, 'I'll do this and make lots of money, and I'll be a star.' It's more, 'I know what art I want to make.' "
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More
Want
Star
" In life, with my friends, I don't see them as male or female; I just see them as people. "
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See
Friends
Just
" Very often, as an actress, there's some kind of stereotype, but with any good script, you should be able to swap the genders of all the characters, and it shouldn't make a huge difference. "
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Good
Stereotype
Difference
" I didn't know my mother was an actress until I was eight and she went back to work. At an even younger age than that, I'd wanted to be an actress, so when I saw her, I clearly remember thinking, 'This is a strange coincidence.' "
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Thinking
Work
Remember
" I think, so often, women play supporting roles or girlfriends or wives - they're there to support a man's journey. "
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Support
Think
Women
" I saw 'The Help' on DVD. I was blown away by Viola Davis: she really straddled that fine line in the plot between what was tragic and what was heart-warming. "
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Plot
Away
Fine Line
" I don't know any woman who's one dimensional, not a single one. "
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Any
Single
Woman
" I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script. "
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Years
Film
Where
" In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous. "
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I Am
Woman
Today
" We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture. "
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Nature
Years
Result
" 'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer. "
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Takes
Favourite
Show
" All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough. "
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Characters
Enough
Female Characters
" In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock. "
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Idea
Aware
Shock
" I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing. "
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Never
Bad
Faces