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" Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family. "
Miranda Otto
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" Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play. "
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" It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. "
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" I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different. "
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" When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee. "
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" Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't. "
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" I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters. "
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" When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun. "
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" Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it. "
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You
" I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university. "
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" I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back! "
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Back
Everything
" That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that. "
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Thought
Me
" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "
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" I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A. "
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" It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. "
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" I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career. "
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" Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read. "
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" I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not. "
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" I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did. "
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" I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. "
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" Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does. "
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" I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother. "
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" Every director is completely different. "
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" The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people. "
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" I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think. "
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" Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people. "
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" I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me. "
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" I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with. "
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" Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking. "
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" It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact. "
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" It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them. "
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