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" I'm a big techphobe. Someone else helps me run my Twitter; I wouldn't be able to trust myself. "
Maxine Peake
Run
Big
Me
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" I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it. "
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" I love hoovering. People go to therapists; I've got a Hoover. "
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Love
I Love
Hoover
" I've always fancied being a bit of warrior, on a horse swinging a sword around, sorting out the men... Oh yes, that sounds lovely. "
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Horse
Sword
Warrior
" A few things make a person stylish: honesty, imagination with a sprinkling of humour. I still keep an eye on trends, but I don't follow them any more. "
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Imagination
Eye
" As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive. "
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Situation
Survive
You
" It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors. "
Maxine Peake
Strength
Think
Strong
" I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school. "
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Serious
Best
Drama
" I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees. "
Maxine Peake
Big
Had
Haircut
" Everybody's in a situation; everybody has a story. It's about finding out why. "
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Story
Why
Finding
" I was a tomboy. In my clubbing days, my friend Lucy Davies-Hunt - half-Iranian, looked like Yasmin Le Bon - could wear catsuits, while I was the one in the sweatshirt, jeans, and Fila boots. "
Maxine Peake
Tomboy
Like
Jeans
" I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please. "
Maxine Peake
Get
Talk
Only
" Cooking, you can keep. I've not the slightest interest in it. "
Maxine Peake
Slightest
You
Cooking
" They always said to me that I needed to be more feminine. I think it's so wrong. Being boisterous doesn't mean you are not feminine. "
Maxine Peake
Said
Me
Always
" I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work. "
Maxine Peake
Good
Good Work
Doing
" I'd rather go down with an almighty bang than play it safe. "
Maxine Peake
Go
Play
Rather
" Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened. "
Maxine Peake
Like
Sometimes
Feels
" I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit. "
Maxine Peake
Actor
Great
Judge
" I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming costume I couldn't handle. "
Maxine Peake
Love
Handle
Costume
" If I were to appear in a programme like 'Sex and the City,' I'm sure I'd be cast as the downtrodden one staying at home and having seven children while the others jet-setted around the world. "
Maxine Peake
Children
World
Sex
" You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that. "
Maxine Peake
Message
Bored
Over
" I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un. "
Maxine Peake
Actually
Used
Compete
" I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre. "
Maxine Peake
Together
Watch
Leisure
" I'm quite cautious in most areas of my life, but I'm always happy to gamble when it comes to acting. I'm not frightened of falling on my face. "
Maxine Peake
Most
Acting
My Life
" I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class. "
Maxine Peake
Count
See
Me
" We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified. "
Maxine Peake
Who
Still
Ignored
" If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one. "
Maxine Peake
Me
Feel
People
" The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday. "
Maxine Peake
Out
Posh
Birthday
" I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word. "
Maxine Peake
Obvious
Word
Sense
" I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I'm not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at myself helps ease the pressure. "
Maxine Peake
Good
Pressure
Seriously
" I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read. "
Maxine Peake
Paper
Interview
Daily