Janet McTeer Quotes

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• When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
• I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.
• I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
• I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.
• Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.
• It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate.…
• I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
• I just want people to focus on the performance.
• I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
• I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
• New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.
• But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them;…
• My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place…
• People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the…
• The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to…
• We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind…
• When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with…
• Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to…
• If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all…
• I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and…

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