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People always like things that seem exotic.

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When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

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I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

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I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

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I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford.

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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

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I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

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I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

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If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actress

Born: December 14th, 1946

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