Quotes by Lindsay Duncan

About Lindsay Duncan:

Lindsay Vere Duncan is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award for her performance in Private Lives, and another Tony Award nomination for her role in Les Liaisons dangereuses. Duncan has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome (2005–2007), and Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009). On film she voiced the android TC-14 in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and she played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

Lindsay Duncan

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is es...

Lindsay Duncan

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

Lindsay Duncan

I don't have any desire to be better known.

Lindsay Duncan

Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.

Lindsay Duncan

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

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

Lindsay Duncan

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

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

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.'

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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...

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No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

Lindsay Duncan

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

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.

Lindsay Duncan

I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

Lindsay Duncan

I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

Lindsay Duncan

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

Lindsay Duncan

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

Lindsay Duncan

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.

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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 ...

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Author Bio

  • NameLindsay Duncan
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornNovember 7, 1950
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire