Scottish - Actress | November 7, 1950 -
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
Lindsay Duncan
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My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
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I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
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The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.
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If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.
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I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.
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I don't have any desire to be better known.
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A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
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Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
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I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.
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