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" It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed. "

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" Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump. "

" I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do. "

" In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me. "

" I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind. "

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" I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy. "

" In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all. "

" I need to learn every day. "

" Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was. "

" I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination. "

" Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that. "

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" I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day. "

" Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own. "

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" Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right. "

" The theater is the thing I love doing most. "

" I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky. "

" I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. "

" The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it? "

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" People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't. "

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