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Janet McTeer Biography

Janet McTeer OBE (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress. In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her role as Nora in A Doll's House (1996–97). She also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Mary Jo Walker in the 1999 film Tumbleweeds, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Hubert Page in the 2011 film Albert Nobbs. She was made an OBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

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When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

Actresses, Dream, Redgrave, Vanessa, Want

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.

Arrive, Children, Couple, Couples, Down And, Things

If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.

Easier, Extras, Hair, Men, Play, Women

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

Fun, Paid, Tumbleweeds

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

Performances, Persons, See, Thought, Watch, Watches

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

Everything, Exchanged, Generations, Growing Up, Mother, Slightly

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

Father, Mother, Till, Together, Years

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

Girly, Hands, Think, Thinking, Way

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

Older, Order, Recreate, Seen, Witness

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me. ' Repeat before every audition.

Audition, Auditions, Mirrors, Repeat, Succeed

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

Fish, Kind, Life, Odd One, Style, Water

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

Age, Calling, Face, People, Way, Women

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

Believe, Mate, See, Thinking, Waiting