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You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.
Anne-Marie Duff
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Anne-Marie Duff
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 8
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Chiswick
London
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Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.
Anne-Marie Duff
I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
Anne-Marie Duff
I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.
Anne-Marie Duff
I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.
Anne-Marie Duff
You can't worry too much about profile otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
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I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale you get rid of demons.
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The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.
Anne-Marie Duff
I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.
Anne-Marie Duff
That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.
Anne-Marie Duff
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
Anne-Marie Duff
Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.
Anne-Marie Duff
The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.
Anne-Marie Duff
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
Anne-Marie Duff
People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.
Anne-Marie Duff
I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.
Anne-Marie Duff
I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.
Anne-Marie Duff
The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.
Anne-Marie Duff
I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.
Anne-Marie Duff
As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
Anne-Marie Duff
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.
Anne-Marie Duff
