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I don't like being shouted at.
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I believe anything can happen.
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Anything Can Happen
Believe
I Believe
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I was painfully shy as a child.
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Children
Shy
Painfully
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I always admire people who have passion.
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Admire
Passion
People
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I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.
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Maggie
Scene
Want
Smith
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I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.
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Absolutely
Bette
Met
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Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
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Christmas Dinner
Dinner
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Im an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.
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Medical
Ambassadors
Dog
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I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
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Christmas
Dinner
Cooked
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I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.
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Detection
Ambassador
Dogs
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My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.
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Cooking
Legendary
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'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.
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Sondheim
Todd
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I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!
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Should
Singers
Thinking
Nightclub
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I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.
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Best Things
Done
Mean
Musicals
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People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
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Age
Certain
People
Preconceptions
Women Age People
Certain Age
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People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.
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Give Me
Hug
Me People Never
Spoken
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The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'
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Orchard
Cherry
Madame
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I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.
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Abbey
Downton Abbey
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When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.
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Meant To Be
Timing
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I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.
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Conventional
Good People Who
Grown-Up
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I don't have any rules when it comes to clothes. I'll wear anything if it fits and looks good.
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Fits
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As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
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Actors
Flexible
Knows
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As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
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Flexible
Work Never Know
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People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.'
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Me People Always
Recipe
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I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.
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Basics
Sticks
Vegetables
Cook
Chicken
Oven
Proper
Stick
Roast
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The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.
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Curry
Delicious
Firsts
Husband
Meals
Life Me My Life
Tasted
Chicken
Meal
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Ive been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.
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Crowds
House
White
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I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.
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Chelsea
Clinton
White House
Hilary
Push
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Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.
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Visiting
Established
Daunting
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I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
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Science
Cookery
Exam
Levels
Nightmare
School
Did
Domestic
Practical
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I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.
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Conscious
Fashion
Party
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I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.
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Abbey
Conscious
Glamorous
Invited
Downton Abbey
Parties
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I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
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Cooks
Partnership
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Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity Ive met as a result of Downton Abbey.
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Hummingbirds
Mets
Results
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Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'
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Abbey
Terrace
Downton Abbey
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At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.
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Bunch
Not Interested
Women People Will
Drop
Hat
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The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.
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First Place
Poem
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I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.
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Laughing
People
Stories
Emotionally
Favorite Thing
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I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
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Bored
Finished
Left
Wish
Hand
Right Back
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For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
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Real Life
Unleashed
Waiting
Life Me Real
Life Waiting Me
Awful Lot
Cook
Confess
Inner
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When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'
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Abbey
Cold
Manchester
Shooting
Standing
Downton Abbey
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My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.
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Hilarious
Certificate
Martial
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I know it sounds funny, but every time I have a disaster in the kitchen, it knocks my confidence level a little bit more, and I feel annoyed with myself that I can't do better.
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Annoyed
Disaster
Funny Time Myself
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I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.
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Decent
Invited
Nonsense
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I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.
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Heaven
If I Could
Plucked
Rehearsals
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I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?
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Cheese
Cookery
Custard
Dessert
Examination
Peas
Sugar
Cook
Egg
Omelet
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I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
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Diet
Diets
Mum
Teens
Always Me Back
Diet Always Me
Box
Chocolates
Inherited
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One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
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Cooking
Newspapers
Salmon
Sunday
Vegetables
Dish
Holding
Pan
Photographed
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For many years, I picked the wrong men, or they picked me. I think if you don't feel attractive or worth something as a woman, you attract men who don't really look after you. That's what happened to me, but I realise that those relationships were like a journey, helping me to learn something about myself.
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Journey
Attractive
Helping
Attract
Picked
Realise
Relationships
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