"I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad."
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"We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it."
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"There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges."
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"Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always - when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we'd have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. We used to say we'd got to about number 200-and-something and we'd run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy."
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"I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't."
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"People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you."
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"I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much."
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"Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more."
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"The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage."
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"I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place."
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"My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing."
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"Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself."
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"I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty."
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"It's easy to get bogged down in bad news."
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"If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director."
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"A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people."
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"I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do."
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"My kids are really learning everything from scratch. It's our job to be their tour guides and camp counselors and orientation people. That's a weird responsibility, especially in a world that feels as good as it feels bad."
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"It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain."
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"The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them."
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