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I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.

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I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

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I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

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Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

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The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

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It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

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It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

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Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.

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I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

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They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actress

Born: July 26th, 1945

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