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Lindsay Duncan
Profession : Actress
Birth : November 7, 1950
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You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
Lindsay Duncan
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
Lindsay Duncan
I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
Lindsay Duncan
The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.
Lindsay Duncan
If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.
Lindsay Duncan
I don't have any desire to be better known.
Lindsay Duncan
Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
Lindsay Duncan
It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
Lindsay Duncan
That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
Lindsay Duncan
I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.
Lindsay Duncan
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
Lindsay Duncan
I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.
Lindsay Duncan
I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
Lindsay Duncan
I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
Lindsay Duncan
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
Lindsay Duncan
My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.
Lindsay Duncan
I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.
Lindsay Duncan
No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
Lindsay Duncan
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
Lindsay Duncan
I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
Lindsay Duncan
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