Janet McTeer

When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!

— Janet McTeer

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave…

— Janet McTeer

There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can…

— Janet McTeer

I'd love to play Hamlet.

— Janet McTeer

There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'

— Janet McTeer

I just want people to focus on the performance.

— Janet McTeer

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it…

— Janet McTeer

New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.

— Janet McTeer

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought…

— Janet McTeer

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

— Janet McTeer

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for…

— Janet McTeer

I've been very fortunate and never not worked.

— Janet McTeer

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

— Janet McTeer

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very…

— Janet McTeer

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

— Janet McTeer

You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how…

— Janet McTeer

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it…

— Janet McTeer

I suppose that there might have been leading men who were put off from casting me as the ingenue because I was…

— Janet McTeer

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a…

— Janet McTeer

I think you have to challenge yourself constantly. Otherwise, it's boring.

— Janet McTeer

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt…

— Janet McTeer

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave…

— Janet McTeer

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but…

— Janet McTeer

I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age...…

— Janet McTeer

I was incredibly self-conscious about the way I looked.

— Janet McTeer