Janet McTeer Quotes
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I think you have to challenge yourself constantly. Otherwise, it's boring.
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You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how do you define success? In my book, it's to be playing those parts you saw your idols - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave - playing when they were the age you are now.
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British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.
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I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.
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I was always a character actress.
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I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.
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We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.
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There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
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People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.
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People will still love and hurt and yearn.
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I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age... It's the qualities of their character.
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I'd love to play Hamlet.
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It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
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When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.
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I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
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I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
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My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
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When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
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I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
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But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.
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When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?
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Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.
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When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!
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There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'