I try not to be a burden to people, I’m too strong and independent for that.
The Guardian, The Guardian, 13 November 2021 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
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Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
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I was a serious little girl growing up in Leeds and had supportive parents who were instrumental in my success.
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I told Sean Connery he’d have to lose his Glaswegian accent and take elocution lessons if he wanted to be an actor. When he became James Bond, I never got a chance to tell him how wrong I’d been.
I've never really been unhappy.
I told Sean Connery he’d have to lose his Glaswegian accent and take elocution lessons if he wanted to be an actor. When he became James Bond, I never got a chance to tell him how wrong I’d been.
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