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My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.

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Gemma Arterton
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: January 12
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Gemma Christina Arterton
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I was born with six fingers on each hand.
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I love strange things my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.
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My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
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I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.
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I'm kind of a chatty person and the props guys would have to handcuff me and tie me up and sometimes I'd just be chatting and they'd just pop it back in... like: OK now, shut up!
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There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.
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My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
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I'm always listening to music I can't live without it.
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I was born with lots of deformities.
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I was quite naughty at school.
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I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.
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Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.
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I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
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