Scottish - Actress | November 7, 1950 -
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
Lindsay Duncan
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I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.
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I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
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I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
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Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
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My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.
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I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.
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No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
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I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
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I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
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I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.
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I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
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