Gina Bellman Quotes

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Gina Bellman

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 10, 1966

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

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Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

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I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

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I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

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I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'

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It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

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When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

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There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake up in the morning and immediately think, 'Now what am I doing tonight?' Now I'd be more likely to reach for a book.

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Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

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Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

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I don't like dressing up, and I don't like putting on make-up or doing the red carpet. The only red carpet events I go to are if I'm supporting a friend.

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I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

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I don't like crowds or attention.

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I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.

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French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

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The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

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I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

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I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

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I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

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I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

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