English - Actress | March 11, 1963 -
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
Alex Kingston
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I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.
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One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.
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Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
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For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.
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I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.
GoodMotherThinkYouKnowOut
In England, there just isn't that fascism of beauty and physicality or whatever. You don't have to look like a gym bunny, all buffed up and a size two. You're not judged the way you are in the States.
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When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.
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Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.
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Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.
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I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.
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I enjoyed my schooldays, but I thought, 'I've got to get through it, and then my life can start.'
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