Joely Richardson

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When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

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You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

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It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

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So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

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I live quite an unsettled life.

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Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

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OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

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I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

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Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

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There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

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