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Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
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I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.
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My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
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Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
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I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.
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If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.
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If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
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Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
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My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
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The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.
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When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
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I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.
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I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
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If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.
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