I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn’t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
CATHERINE ZETA-JONESWe recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It’s like the Tardis – I go in there and never come out.
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I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!
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I don’t know, ‘Zorro’ was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I’m, like, from Wales.
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I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth – they always look polished afterwards.
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I was like any new bride, who said, ‘I’m going to cook for my man.’ In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.
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I’m a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
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I’m more insecure than I ever let anyone know, sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.
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There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I’m sorry to disappoint people, but I don’t look like that all the time – no actress does.
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I’ve always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.
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Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
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I get a bit gloomy when it’s gloomy.
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I came out of the womb wearing make-up!
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To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, ‘One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.
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We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It’s like the Tardis – I go in there and never come out.
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I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village – the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood – people stick together.
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I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They’re too beautiful to wear.
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