I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am not particularly well-behaved.
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know it is coming.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.
I've done some pretty bad things in my life.
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.