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Olivia Williams

Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 1968) is an English film, stage, and television actress who has appeared in British and American films and television.

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There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

Lunch, Places, Situation, Tents, Three

For me, selfishly, The Postman didn't kill my career. It meant I didn't shoot straight and painfully into the limelight, but Rushmore came out of it. No one would have known where I was to cast me in Rushmore had I not been in The Postman. Because they shared a producer. Nor would I have been in The Sixth Sense. Nor would I be speaking to you now if Kevin Costner hadn't cast me in The Postman.

Limelight, Postman, Producer, Producers, Selfishly, Sixth Sense

I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

Brosnan, James, Kissing, Lucky, Three

When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment. "

Giving, Like, Lord, Moment, Moments, Polanski

As I was getting into the helicopter, a slightly nervous actor said to me, "Whatever you do, don't say to the helicopter pilot, 'Show me what this baby can do. '" So I of course, got into it and said, "Show me what this baby can do. " And we just had this insane helicopter ride. It's the sort of thing you only get to do on movie sets. I'm so lucky to have done it and have that chance.

Baby, Insane, Lucky, Ride, Say, Sets

I'm on record as having said "I've done this amazing movie - The Sixth Sense - that no one is going to see. " And then it stayed in the top 10 American films for about six months. So don't ask me. I'm the most disastrous PR and marketing predictor.

Marketing, Done, Film, American, See

I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.

Career, Children, Important, My Family, Realized

I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.

Age, Gotten, Looked, Lucky, Older, Thinking

It was fine when I was single and childless. Carrying the responsibility of screwing up your kids at the same time is huge. I remember when I got Peter Pan, and I told my mom and dad and my friends I was leaving - again, I was cast way late on - in the next two days to go to Australia for four months, and they all went "Bye! See you in four months!" But no one said "We need you," and I really knew that it was time to think about someone else for a change.

Childless, Dad, Kids, Mom, Months, Same

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

Age, Audience, Fun, Whenever, Worries, Worry

I guess maybe I was hired to play in the Doll House because of my dinner scene in The Sixth Sense, which has been scrutinized a thousand times as to whether you know Bruce Willis is dead, or whether I'm talking to myself. I think that maybe if that could be my forte, to do a scene and be able to say it could be read this way or that way.

Dinner, House, Scene, Think, Thinking, Way

I love the ups and downs and the eccentricities of my career. The worst movies have produced some of the best friendships.

Downs, Friendships, Ups, Ups & Downs, Worst

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

American, Artist, Asiatic, Eye, Trying, Wondered

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

Acting, Comedy, Detective, Done, Play, Shakespeare

I had the best teacher in the business. Kevin Costner was my teacher. I was acting opposite him and he was directing me. The way he directed me, for which I am eternally grateful, is he would watch the scene back on the monitor, which is sort of considered unfashionable - you're not meant to watch yourself. But he was like, "Come around. Watch this. See there, you're doing a great reaction, but you're doing it out of frame. " That was exactly what I needed. I learned how to act on film from him.

Acting, Directed, Grateful, See, Teacher

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Happy, Happy Marriage, Long, Parent, Parents

My very first friend was my stand-in, who's a very dear friend to this day, and she kind of saved my ass. She told me where to stand and where the camera was and where to look. I thought, "If I don't enjoy this, then there's absolutely no point in being an actor. "

Ass, Enjoy, Kind, Point, Saved

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

Pressure, Projects, Under, Way, Work

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

Art, Careers, Children, Life, Raise, Way

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

Brain, Breathing, Daughter, Entirely, Longing, Mother

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