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Gemma Arterton

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 12, 1986

I was quite naughty at school.

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My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

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I was born with six fingers on each hand.

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I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

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It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

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I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

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It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

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When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

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The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

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I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

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My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

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It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

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My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.

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I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

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I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

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I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

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I was born with lots of deformities.

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Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

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I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

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Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

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