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I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

Cherie Lunghi

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Cherie Lunghi
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 4
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Theatre Actress
Cherie Mary Lunghi
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I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.
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I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.
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I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.
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I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
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I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.
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With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
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I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
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I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.
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Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
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I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.
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I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.
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I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
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There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.
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I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why does she put him down in public? or, Why is he so rude to her? It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.
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It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.
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There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.
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I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
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I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.
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People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.
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Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
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