Joanna Page Quotes

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Joanna Page

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 23, 1977

For so long I looked so young for my age that it's been quite frustrating because in my thirties I was still playing 17-year-olds.

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I never panic about typecasting. Even if it asks for 'a bubbly blonde Welsh girl,' if I like the script I'll go and meet for it.

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Some people assume that I'm a stand-up comedian - I couldn't think of anything worse - and then they ask 'would you like to do something like a costume drama?'

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I actually got around to applying to the Open University. And then the script came in for 'Gavin & Stacey,' and it was the only thing I'd read in absolutely ages that I loved and I thought if I don't get the part that's it - I'll finish it.

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Ed Miliband looks like a character from Sesame Street. I just think he's terrible. When he says something, I just switch off.

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It's a good idea to carry your toothbrush in your hand luggage just in case your suitcase goes missing. You don't want to have smelly breath throughout your holiday.

Joanna Page

Since watching Kate Winslet in 'Hideous Kinky' I've had a profound love affair with Morocco, specifically Marrakesh. I've wanted to go for as long as I can remember because it looks a very romantic city and I'm a sucker for romance.

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I'm quite impulsive when it comes to planning holidays, so I never bother to check weather reports or anything like that.

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I need privacy when I'm on holiday.

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I think the reason that some actresses go to the other side of the camera as they get older is because after 40 it's hard to get the parts. But I have been an ingenue for so long - I was never allowed to go for roles where you are a policewoman and have to shoot a gun because I was this kind of child-woman.

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I used to get nervous about my acting being good enough. But now I am very much like, 'Stop panicking and just do it,' and I think that's what children have done for me.

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My God, I used to go shopping - Selfridges, Net-a-Porter, lovely handbags, beautiful dresses, all my heels... They are all boxed up now.

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Swansea, where I grew up, was a great place to spend weekends. I'd open the curtains on Saturday morning and look out at the sea. We'd go for walks on the beach and swim with the dogs in the freezing cold waves.

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When I was doing my A-levels, I'd spend Friday nights in Mumbles, a village by the beach that's popular with surfers.

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When I was 18 and went to RADA in London, my weekends calmed down a lot. I lived in halls in Gower Street and spent three hours on the phone to my parents every night, crying because I missed home so much.

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My character in 'Gavin & Stacey' wouldn't work out, so luckily I don't have to either.

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I always stuff my face at mealtimes.

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I am just a jobbing actress, I don't win awards.

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I don't want to try to be a film star and move to L.A. I'd be quite happy just to keep on working.

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I've been incredibly lucky in that I've been brought up by fab parents. They always said, 'Hold your head up, have confidence and believe in yourself.' As long as I can make them proud, and my husband proud, I really couldn't care less about anything else.

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