Joanna Page Quotes

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Joanna Page

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 23, 1977

My dad, Nigel, was a mechanic, and Mum, Susan, worked in a bank.

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Since 'Gavin & Stacey,' it's cool to be Welsh.

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I don't really want to go on and play Lady Macbeth.

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My parents wanted me to go to university, they said I needed something to fall back on and I said: 'No I don't!'

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For the first six months after I had Eva I was away working filming two shows back to back. I had my mum looking after her on set but it was so tough as all I wanted to do was spend time with my new baby.

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Even now I struggle to use my laptop for anything other than ordering toys for the kids.

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It's mad because you think cancer happens to someone else - not your family. But of course it does, and when it does it hits so hard and all your family and friends have to deal with it.

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I love Monopoly, Connect 4 and Cluedo.

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I've been told that I'm too ugly.

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I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare.

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I eat lots of fruit and veg, and I have toyed with being a vegetarian many times, but I like meat and I think I need the iron.

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I'd like to have thicker hair. I was in 'What The Butler Saw' and at the beginning the character has got long, blonde hair which she cuts off. They got me a long, thick, blonde wig and I remember thinking, I am sure my life would be so much better if I had hair like this.

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I am a jeans and T-shirt girl - I like 70s flares. I don't make a fuss of my hair or make-up. I buy a lot of make-up because I'm always having ideas about what I am going to do, but I never know how to apply it. Normally, I put on mascara, concealer under my eyes, a bit of peach lipstick and blusher, and that does me.

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I loved being an only child. I loved being in my own world, playing with my toys and being in my made-up magical world.

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My relationship with my parents hasn't changed much as I've grown older. I'm more independent, but still very close to them.

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I wanted to be an instinctive parent, rather than one driven by 'shoulds.' When I was pregnant, I read all the books, including Gina Ford's, which just seemed so regimented and structured. It sounded ridiculous and I knew there was no way I could do that.

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I love it that the Welsh moment was with 'Gavin & Stacey!' Now when I go up for jobs, they want me to be Welsh. It's really nice.

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I don't go out a lot.

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I can't bear doing karaoke.

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I don't sit down and think, now I want to have my family and then I want to write my own series.

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