Eve Best Quotes

#1. I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

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#2. Changing my name was traumatic for me.

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#3. When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.

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#4. When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

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#5. I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

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#6. Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

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#7. I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.

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#8. I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

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#9. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

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#10. There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.

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#11. I would love to go and live in the mountains ... and make jam.

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#12. There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?

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#13. I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

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#14. I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

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#15. If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.

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