English - Actor | April 14, 1964 -
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
Gina McKee
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I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.
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My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.
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Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
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The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.
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I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.
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I think it's nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.
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There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.
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I think I'm very open and friendly and warm.
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I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.
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Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, 'hang on a minute, I'm obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.'
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I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.
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