Janet McTeer Quotes
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Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.
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There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'
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I just want people to focus on the performance.
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I feel strongly for the younger actresses when a lot of their career is based on how they look. That must be hard when your looks begin to go and you haven't built up the wealth of character parts to get into something else.
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I was incredibly self-conscious about the way I looked.
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I suppose that there might have been leading men who were put off from casting me as the ingenue because I was taller than they were, but I've no idea that this ever happened. When I did 'Much Ado About Nothing' opposite Mark Rylance in the West End, we used the difference in our heights as part of their relationship.
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I have always been drawn to strong and interesting women, people who have navigated that world before you and maintained their integrity and sense of self.
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I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.
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When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.
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In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It's the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn't with film.
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I've been very fortunate and never not worked.
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I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
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All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.
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I'm always amazed when anybody remembers anything of my work, and even more so when I get nominated for something I've done. For many years, I was like a horse wearing a pair of blinkers as far as using these awards or nominations in order to boost my career was concerned.
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'The King and I' - one of the first films I ever saw.
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It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.
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The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
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I love the way we do theatre in London: I love the fact that everybody is trained.
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New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.
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I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.