Saffron Burrows

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

— Saffron Burrows

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

— Saffron Burrows

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and…

— Saffron Burrows

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is…

— Saffron Burrows

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed…

— Saffron Burrows

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

— Saffron Burrows

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to…

— Saffron Burrows

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small…

— Saffron Burrows

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I…

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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me…

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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the…

— Saffron Burrows

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is…

— Saffron Burrows

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on…

— Saffron Burrows

I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like…

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For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like…

— Saffron Burrows

Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability…

— Saffron Burrows

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

— Saffron Burrows

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small…

— Saffron Burrows

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered…

— Saffron Burrows

I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

— Saffron Burrows

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as…

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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their…

— Saffron Burrows

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an…

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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in…

— Saffron Burrows