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Anne-Marie Duff

Anne-Marie Duff (born 8 October 1970) is an English actress. She rose to prominence playing Fiona Gallagher on the first two seasons of UK TV series Shameless. She then played Queen Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen (2006). She also played the lead role in the television series From Darkness in 2015.

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I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing your costume underneath your own clothes! I suppose things are always ticking away in the back of your mind.

Clothes, Costume, Home, Mind

I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

Drama, Hurt, Quite, School, World

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

Dames, Empires, Happy, Like, Years

I think age is sometimes just a number. But it's a real joy. Young actors don't come with any of the baggage that we load ourselves up with. They're not worried about their profile, they're not worried about how good they look, or all the nonsense. They just tell the story and ask: "What happens in this scene?" Well, I'll do that then. And professionally it's good for you because it means that you're forced to do the same thing, and that's always a good thing.

Real, Mean, Thinking, Same, Professionally, Nonsense

I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

Children, Huge, Icons, Idea, Ideas, Image

I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.

Admire, Commitment, Moment, People, Room, Somewhere Else

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.

Actors, Become, Different, Profile, Worry

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

Grow, Growing Up, Grows, Learn, Think, Thinking

That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

Jobs, Powerful, Queen, Queens, Theatre, Thing

I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.

Beautiful, Mother, Father, Love, Lucky, Life

The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.

Class, Dancing, Ethic, Performance, Sacrifice, Usually

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

Pain, Drama, Writing, Hole, Agent, Television

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

Stars, Hands, Two, Famous, Decide, Hand

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Drama, Epic, Thinking, Greek, Tragedy

The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.

Children, Experience, Grown, Interesting, Years

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

Interesting, People, Point, Stories, Tell

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

Creative, People, Things, Think, Thinking, Work Out

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

Conflict, Draws, Kind, Role, Roles

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

Certain, Scripts, Thing, Writing, Yarn

Healthy love, I always think, is. . . wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

Baby, Thinking, Wings, Let, Challenge

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