Lindsay Duncan

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And…

— Lindsay Duncan

I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian…

— Lindsay Duncan

I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel…

— Lindsay Duncan

I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to…

— Lindsay Duncan

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't…

— Lindsay Duncan

Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and…

— Lindsay Duncan

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly…

— Lindsay Duncan

I don't have any desire to be better known.

— Lindsay Duncan

I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So…

— Lindsay Duncan

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best…

— Lindsay Duncan

If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.

— Lindsay Duncan

Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.

— Lindsay Duncan

I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

— Lindsay Duncan

My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do -…

— Lindsay Duncan

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

— Lindsay Duncan

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

— Lindsay Duncan

I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience.…

— Lindsay Duncan

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.

— Lindsay Duncan

I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.

— Lindsay Duncan

My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor.…

— Lindsay Duncan

You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

— Lindsay Duncan

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

— Lindsay Duncan

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

— Lindsay Duncan

I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting…

— Lindsay Duncan

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

— Lindsay Duncan