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" I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves. "

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" Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. "

" My job is to see the world through the character's eyes. "

" My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know - education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government. "

" One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them. "

" My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here. "

" The best theater is trying to tell the truth, and the best politics is trying to tell the truth. "

" I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque. "

" If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. "

" As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist. "

" I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all. "

" Rock Hudson. He was an absolute human being. Charming, funny, real. "

" When I was feeding myself by being a professional actress, I never got a good notice in the 'Evening Standard.' And when I changed direction and became a Labour MP, I was the wrong political party for the 'Evening Standard.' "

" You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals. "

" What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore. "

" It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in. "

" I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. "

" My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through. "

" No, I didn't think of myself as an idealist. I consider myself as a believer in what I regard as the Labour Party's basic principles, which have to do with equality and 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. You know, the golden rules. "

" I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. "

" Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. "

" Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again? "

" Usually, if there is a woman's part in a piece, there's only one, so you've got no other actresses to work with. "

" No, I'm not recognized in London. What would people recognize? "

" I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. "

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" My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. "

" I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play. "

" Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what she was doing to this country. "

" It always amazed me - it still does - that people offer me work. And when the theater was my basic bread and butter, every time a show finished, I was convinced I would never work again. "