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Famous Quotes By Helen McCrory

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I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'. — Helen McCrory

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So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people. — Helen McCrory

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Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now. — Helen McCrory

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As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it. — Helen McCrory

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In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That's lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park. — Helen McCrory

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There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life! — Helen McCrory

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I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.' — Helen McCrory

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You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam! — Helen McCrory

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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. — Helen McCrory

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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17
old enough to know better. — Helen McCrory

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Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be. — Helen McCrory

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If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of. — Helen McCrory

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I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces. — Helen McCrory

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A script is only as good as the director who's making it. — Helen McCrory

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People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. — Helen McCrory

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I think it's very unhealthy to claim you love someone you don't know. — Helen McCrory

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Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff. — Helen McCrory

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The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run. — Helen McCrory

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I really love my food. My favourite thing is artichokes. I am not so much interested in desserts or chocolate, though. I also like to cook with my husband Damian. — Helen McCrory

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What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have. — Helen McCrory

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People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals. — Helen McCrory

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My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. — Helen McCrory

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I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. — Helen McCrory

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Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood. — Helen McCrory

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I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think. — Helen McCrory

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I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it. — Helen McCrory

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If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be? — Helen McCrory

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It's what people create that makes my heart stop. — Helen McCrory

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When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born. — Helen McCrory

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Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more. — Helen McCrory

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I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun. — Helen McCrory

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The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself. — Helen McCrory

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I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'. — Helen McCrory

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I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here. — Helen McCrory

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I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there. — Helen McCrory

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What really matters to me is what my peers think. — Helen McCrory

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Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments. — Helen McCrory

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I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better. — Helen McCrory

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I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! — Helen McCrory

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To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends. — Helen McCrory

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What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself. — Helen McCrory

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I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything. — Helen McCrory

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I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it. — Helen McCrory

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I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. — Helen McCrory

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If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy. — Helen McCrory

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Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie. — Helen McCrory

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You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.' — Helen McCrory

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I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it. — Helen McCrory

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I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education. — Helen McCrory

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America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to. — Helen McCrory

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I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of. — Helen McCrory

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I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country. — Helen McCrory

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I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours. — Helen McCrory

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A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible. — Helen McCrory