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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

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Samantha Bond
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 27
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Television Actor
London
England
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
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I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.
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I adore acting it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.
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My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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