I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that. Lindsay Duncan More Quotes by Lindsay Duncan More Quotes From Lindsay Duncan No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind. Lindsay Duncan how matter mind people 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 more, the modern world is all about conformity. Lindsay Duncan more important people world 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 a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea. Lindsay Duncan me voice mistake people I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me. Lindsay Duncan friend parents me experience The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it. Lindsay Duncan nothing like excitement stage If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant. Lindsay Duncan someone money enough said I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman. Lindsay Duncan woman down theatre work I don't have any desire to be better known. Lindsay Duncan any better known desire A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real. Lindsay Duncan loving us anger real Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood. Lindsay Duncan deep down think miserable That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere. Lindsay Duncan image road think past I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix. Lindsay Duncan good you love life You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act. Lindsay Duncan act someone like you I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts. Lindsay Duncan think you freedom world You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage. Lindsay Duncan you courage work remember I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.' Lindsay Duncan think crazy mother son 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 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive. Lindsay Duncan me family mother history I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter. Lindsay Duncan know always matter work I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me. Lindsay Duncan nobody me my-own happy 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 the generosity of everyone there. Lindsay Duncan new feel family love
