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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

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.

From Lindsay Duncan

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

From 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.

From 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.'

From Lindsay Duncan

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.

From Lindsay Duncan

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.

From Lindsay Duncan