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" People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. "

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" 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. "

" And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most. "

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" I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other. "

" I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again. "

" I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old. "

" I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Work certainly does help fill a void. "

" It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. "

" It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. "

" I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like. "

" I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea. "

" I wanted to be a set designer when I was young. "

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

" I love being part of a company, and telling a story. "

" 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'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. "

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" I need to learn every day. "

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" 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. "