Helen McCrory Quotes
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A script is only as good as the director who's making it.
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I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
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So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
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I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.
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I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.
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America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
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I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
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I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.
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I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
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Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.
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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.
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Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
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People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: why would anyone want their children to be the brightest? Academia is a lonely world.
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To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.
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What really matters to me is what my peers think.
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I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.
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Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.
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Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.
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I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
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I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
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It's what people create that makes my heart stop.
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I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!
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When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.
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I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.
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I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.
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People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
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I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces
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As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.
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My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
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