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Vote:   | At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers. |
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Vote: | Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. |
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Vote: | Have you ever been to the proper desert? The most extraordinary thing is the silence. There's nothing to move out there. I got such a buzz out of it. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I am terribly inarticulate. I find it very difficult to say what I think, which is why I am an actress. If you are inarticulate you can either become a painter, or a musician or an actor, and the laziest of these three is becoming an actor because somebody else writes it... you just put the hat on and say the words. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I can look pig ugly standing on my head - I'm plain, bony and brittle. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I did all those things you're supposed to do when you're nineteen in Paris. Spent hours talking, redoing the world in the back of a cafe, and smoking about fifty Gitanes. Had a great time doing that - corny, but great. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I hate what I would call the whorish provoking of tears, and I hate feeling that I've been tricked into crying when I see a film. And I cry at the drop of a hat -- pathetic! |
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Vote: | I mean, what's wrong with being middle-class? I'm middle-class! However, I've got over it now. I'll be an aristocrat now if they want me to be. I suppose having an image as a brainy upper-class beauty is better than the alternative. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I resent articles that have described my childhood as tragic. It wasn't a bed of roses and it wasn't a hellhole. You just get on with it. |
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Vote: | I wanted to be a saint. |
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Vote: | I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. |
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Vote: | If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Men whistle at you in the street and boys fantasize about you - not my kind of blondes, only those with a 40-inch chest. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Movies make you immortal and ageless. |
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Vote: | My idea of bliss was to be on a TV talent show from somewhere like Blackpool, doing tap or singing. I loved that stuff, but my mother thought it was vulgar. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Of course I'm horrible. I am bitchy about people behind their backs and I can be callous, insensitive and brutal. I try to be good, but I am very wicked. |
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Vote: | People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The one thing I do not want to be in, is a film in which I'm someone there to make men look good, muscularly and strong. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | When I get to Hollywood I feel all this pressure to be exactly the same as everybody else. I think it's more interesting to dither around on the outskirts and just nip in from time to time. |