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" I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. "

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" Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? "

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" I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. "

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" You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from. "

" I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person. "

" I like going to France, because no one knows who I am. "

" It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! "

" There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't. "

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" I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. "