Samantha Bond Quotes

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• Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

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  Girl, Heart, Years

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• I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

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  Ideas, Scales, Following

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• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

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  People, Pedestal, Way

  "Samantha Bond: Don't call me Miss Moneypenny". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

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  Men, People, Sick

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• I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

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  Children, Thinking, Giving

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• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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  Loss, Parent, Loss Of A Parent

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• I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

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  Thinking

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• When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

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  Beautiful, Littles, Actresses

  "Samantha Bond: Why So Few Middle-aged Women on TV?". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

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  New York, Airports, Done

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• I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

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  Mother, Blood, Creative

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• My best friend is my husband.

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  Husband, My Best Friend, My Husband

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• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

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  Teenager, People, Rooms

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• Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

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  Three, Paper, Sometimes

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• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

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  Night, Long, Firsts

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• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

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  Middle, Pops, Sensational

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• I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

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  Memories, Husband, Water

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• As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.

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  Children, Home, Bridges

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• My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.

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  Long, Nicknames, Film

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• Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.

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  Sex, Cities, Insulting

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• The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

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  Bed, Watches, Television

  "Samantha Bond: why so few middle-aged women on TV?" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

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  Dying, Goes On, Pasta

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• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

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  Insecurity, Suspicion, Kicks

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• It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

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  Children, Animal, Adages

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• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

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  Children, Careers, Two

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• I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

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  Reason, Turbulence, Tense

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