Tara Fitzgerald Quotes

Tara Fitzgerald

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 18, 1967

When I was nine I had a crush on a boy, and he wrote another girl a love letter. She tore it up. Two boys told me the letter was to me, so I picked up the pieces and read it, and went to him as though he'd written it to me. He said, 'I could never love you because you're too ugly.'

Tara Fitzgerald

Melodrama is busy, tragedy isn't.

Tara Fitzgerald

On Saturday morning I rise at about seven o'clock and start thinking about the day ahead and perhaps make a short list of things to do.

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There is always something absurd at a pivotal, tragic moment and if you observe people they do the most bizarre things at the height of a tragic occurrence.

Tara Fitzgerald

A long time ago, I was playing Nora in 'A Doll's House.' I wore this scarf, and it started to unravel without me realising. I walked around the stage a lot, and trapped myself in this web of fabric. Let's hope the audience thought it was an intentional, avant-garde staging device.

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My mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish and a portrait photographer, and my English father, Michael Callaby, was an artist.

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There are a lot of good roles I wouldn't have been able to play in my 20s - something like Lady Macbeth, for instance, which I would only feel comfortable playing in my 40s.

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I believe in things that are greater than us. I don't know how to quantify them but I believe in energy.

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I believe in energetic fields that can cause things to happen. I haven't seen anything, but I've experienced things, felt things.

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I was intrigued by this woman I play in 'Requiem,' who operates independently.

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I am a very private person. I'm more than happy to talk about myself to a certain degree, but the moment it starts impacting on other people, it gets difficult.

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My school days were varied, to say the least - my family moved around a lot.

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I was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, but then spent some time in the Bahamas, where my parents moved to join my maternal grandfather, who ran a law firm.

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I loved my first school, Bousfield. It was near our flat and was quite a progressive, unusual place - it had an outside theatre where we used to watch real, live chimpanzees' tea parties. Incredible.

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In some ways, the idea of settling down is alien to me. I'm more familiar with having a peripatetic existence, flitting here and there. Then again, I do 'get' the whole husband-kids-home thing, too. I want it all.

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I wanted stability and freedom - or at least I thought I did - and it's paradoxical.

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Hollywood is a beast - a well-run, incredibly efficient beast, but a beast nonetheless.

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Making it in the U.S. is not something you can do on your terms, you have to do it on theirs, and I couldn't.

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I like to think everyone gets married with the best intentions, hoping it will last forever.

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I like to think I have found security in my marriage.

Tara Fitzgerald