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" I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. "
Judi Dench
Things
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" I love being part of a company, and telling a story. "
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" Work certainly does help fill a void. "
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" It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. "
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" The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. "
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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. "
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" I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. "
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Sometimes
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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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" 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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Loved
" I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late. "
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Like
Too Late
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Had
" I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination. "
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Yourself
Job
" In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me. "
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Contrast
Me
" 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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" 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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Friends
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Actually
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