Top 30 Holliday Grainger Quotes
#1. Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
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#3. I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.
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#4. 'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.
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#5. I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.
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#7. I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.
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#8. I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.
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#10. I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.
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#11. True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
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#12. You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.
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#13. When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.
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#15. I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well. I'd love to be able to do a mixture.
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#17. I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.
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#18. I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
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#19. The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.
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#21. Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.
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#22. I'm developing a little crush on Michael Fassbender. Really unoriginal.
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#23. As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
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#24. It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.
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#25. To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
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#26. I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.
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#27. I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.
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#28. When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.
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#29. It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.
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#30. I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.
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