Quotes 41 till 57 of 57.
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We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
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We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
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When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
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When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
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When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
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When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
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Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
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You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
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You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.
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You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
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