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Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

Janet McTeer

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Janet McTeer
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 8
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But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.
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I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
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My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
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I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
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When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
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We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water I really never knew who I was.
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People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.
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The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
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I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.
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I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
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Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.
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