Maxine Peake Quotes
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I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.
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I used to think the store detective had followed me all the way home and would knock on the door and go, 'Hello, is this your daughter? She's got three blue lipsticks and a moisturiser from Boots in her bag.' We just used to nick crap. Not even stuff we wanted.
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I'm a big techphobe. Someone else helps me run my Twitter; I wouldn't be able to trust myself.
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It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.
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The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.
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I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'
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I'm not a fan of reality TV.
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When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable.
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I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.
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I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member.
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Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.
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I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.
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I've always fancied being a bit of warrior, on a horse swinging a sword around, sorting out the men... Oh yes, that sounds lovely.
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I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices.
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I'd rather go down with an almighty bang than play it safe.
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There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.
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I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all around us, but the majority of us don't have to go into a court, so it's a way into another world that is unusual.
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What's wrong with wanting the best for everybody?
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I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.
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The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.
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I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around.
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After my mum and dad got divorced, I was entitled to free school dinners, but my mum said, 'Under no circumstances,' because she was proud.
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I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un.
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I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.