English - Writer | June 16, 1934 -
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
Eileen Atkins
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I'm rarely wrong.
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On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to her that I was to go to a drama college.
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My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.
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Film was something I didn't really think about when I was young, because if you looked like me, you weren't a film star.
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I'm told I am over-choosy, and I shocked everybody by doing Jeffrey Archer. I did that to annoy everybody; sometimes, between Medea and Virginia Woolf, you can get punch-drunk.
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I love dresses that just skim the body, that suggest what's underneath rather than display it.
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I hate tight, tight stuff showing every line. I want to be sick when people are in Lycra.
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There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.
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My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.
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My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.
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Bad things happen. Cope!
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