62 Quotes by Janet McTeer

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.

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.

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

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There’s no space for me to express myself.

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

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.

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.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn’t working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

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.