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In My Industry, Everybody Wants To Know Everything About You, And Its Just Dumb. I Think The Only Way Of Maintaining Some Of That Mystique Is By Not Giving Away Too Much About Yourself. It Has Served Me Well So Far. I Never Want To Feel Up For Grabs.

Somebody Referred To Me As A Ringleader, Which I Wouldn't Have Classed Myself As, But Anyway, There You Go.

The Writing Is The Springboard For Your Intuitive Stuff And Then You See, Maybe A Colour Of What You Want To Achieve. Then You Bring In The Technique You've Learnt. But When You're On Film, You're Not Always In Control Of That. That's What Makes Me Believe In A Kind Of Collective Unconscious, A Sort Of Experience You Draw On.

It's The Idea That When You Say 'actress', People Think Of An Airy, Floaty, No-brain Person, Which Of Course You Can't Be If You Are An Actor. It Is An Unfortunate Word, Which Is Why, For A Time, I Hung On To 'actor', Because It Just Seemed More Workmanlike, You Know, Like You Say 'woman Doctor' Not 'doctoress'.

I Wouldn't Want To Go Back To My 20s; They Were Pretty Angst-laden Times.