Eve Best Quotes
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I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.
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Changing my name was traumatic for me.
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I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.
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Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.
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I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.
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If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.
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I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.
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There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.
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When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
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If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
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I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.
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I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
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There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?
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I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.