Tara Fitzgerald

I was very insecure.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I'm naturally quite wiry and muscular.

— Tara Fitzgerald

Generally, being famous is hard work.

— Tara Fitzgerald

Melodrama is busy, tragedy isn't.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I like to think I have found security in my marriage.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I would willingly have laid down my life for my father.

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In the end, bad things happening can teach you good things.

— Tara Fitzgerald

In my fantasy I travel really light, but in reality I don't.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I always played male roles in the school play - including Napoleon.

— Tara Fitzgerald

When I was a kid, I was teased that I should be a boy because of my voice.

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I had such a big crush on Jeremy Irons when I was growing up.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I love holidays. Even the worst experience is worth having.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I believe in energetic fields that can cause things to happen. I haven't seen anything, but I've experienced things, felt things.

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My feeling is there is always that possibility for humour in tragedy. In life they go together.

— Tara Fitzgerald

Playing Ophelia was a launch-pad to the rest of my career - it is one of the great roles for a young…

— Tara Fitzgerald

I like to think everyone gets married with the best intentions, hoping it will last forever.

— Tara Fitzgerald

Auctions and flea markets are a compulsion I've picked up from my mother and I like the idea of recycling.

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My mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish and a portrait photographer, and my English father, Michael Callaby, was an artist.

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I've always felt socially awkward and you can cover it up with a veneer to some degree and the formality of a…

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I was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, but then spent some time in the Bahamas, where my parents moved to join my…

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I loved my first school, Bousfield. It was near our flat and was quite a progressive, unusual place - it had an…

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Mum was a photographer and didn't have much money, and I was always conscious of the fact. We didn't go on holidays…

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A long time ago, I was playing Nora in 'A Doll's House.' I wore this scarf, and it started to unravel without…

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I am a very private person. I'm more than happy to talk about myself to a certain degree, but the moment it…

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I've secretly harboured a desire to direct for a quite a long time. It's so much more challenging. As an actor you…

— Tara Fitzgerald

Actors sometimes say they can't do something because their character would never do that. The director Suri Krishnamma once told me he…

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I loved Hollywood musicals and would dance around in the living room to 'Top Hat' when I was a child. I was…

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In some ways, the idea of settling down is alien to me. I'm more familiar with having a peripatetic existence, flitting here…

— Tara Fitzgerald

Theatre and television are two totally different disciplines.

— Tara Fitzgerald

You have you be true to yourself and if you're not, you're stuffed.

— Tara Fitzgerald

My school days were varied, to say the least - my family moved around a lot.

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I'm lucky: both sides of my family are pretty strong in different ways.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I tend to play independent-minded people.

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I thought I was lacking because I wasn't particularly ambitious.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I love the way the Japanese prepare food - it's so skilful and clean.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I do love creating a look and dressing up in general.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I'm generally happiest in a rehearsal room, if the rehearsals are going well.

— Tara Fitzgerald

Some people have a natural aptitude for investing, but I don't think I do.

— Tara Fitzgerald

My tendency has always been towards strong, repressive roles.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I find art in simple things and arranging objects gives me enormous pleasure.

— Tara Fitzgerald