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" I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American. "
Janet McTeer
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" Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation. "
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" The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it. "
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" I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden. "
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" People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10. "
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" My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17. "
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