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"You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money."
"I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy."
"We'll always have art, darling."
"I'm crap at lying. I go bright red."
"I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you."
"I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic."
"I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles."
"Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death."
"I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary.""
"The communal experience of sharing something, and being part of it, and watching something visually striking, that's what film is all about. Seeing everything on a big screen, and to be able to see something phenomenal in that way, and being moved by it. We have kind of lost the tradition of that, and we're not nurturing the next generation in that tradition, and maybe that's why they're not turning up."
"I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages."
"Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive."
"I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live."
"I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end."
"In Britain, we haven't got enough money to make these long-running shows. We always do little mini ones. You have more control as an actor over what you want to do with it. On these you drive yourself mad trying to know what's going to happen, because the writers don't."
"Brexit for me was really interesting because I was in the heart of Yorkshire, which is a "leave" area. It was quite odd actually, a real deep sense of unease. You felt very odd for your country. You have lots of people that are angry. It's a very physical and public stand that these people are making."
"I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt."
"With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up."
"What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles."
"I'd love to direct again."