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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.

~Eve Best

Topics: Big Classic Doing Forces Heroines Lady Macbeth Negativity Often Played Powerful Roles Some Theater Woman Women You

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When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

~Eve Best

Topics: Being Belief Beyond Close Coming Hearing Human Human Being Incredible Noise Opera Opera Singer Singer Up Volume You

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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?

~Eve Best

Topics: Best Best Friend Choose Film Friend Got Hollywood Huge Maid Many Option Over Part Play Roles Somebody Stage Theatre Why Wife You

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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.

~Eve Best

Topics: Acting Any Been Camera Close-Up Connection Different Feels Front Good Like Lose Never Person Real Reality Right Shots Soon Them Very You

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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.

~Eve Best

Topics: About Any Before Contract Even Funny Funny Thing Get Hardly Job Make Million Offered Part Pilots Series Sign Them Thing Turned Whole Year You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actress

Born: July 31st, 1971

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