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18 quotes by Joely Richardson

Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress, known for her role as Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime television show The Tudors and Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck. She also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon (1997), The Patriot (2000), Anonymous (2011), and the Hollywood film adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).
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You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

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I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

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When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

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Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one... →

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I live quite an unsettled life.

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I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

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The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such... →

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My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

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Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

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So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop... →

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OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of... →

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The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times... →

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And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

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