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29 quotes by Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award for her performance in Private Lives, and another Tony Award nomination for her role in Les Liaisons dangereuses. Duncan has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii in the...
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and... →

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My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song... →

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I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by... →

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Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written... →

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I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

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You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

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My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for... →

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A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

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Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.

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I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

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I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

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No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

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That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

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