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.
CATHERINE ZETA-JONESI 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.
More Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes
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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 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.
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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 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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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’m intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It’s terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I’m so terrified
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I had – along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.
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I love ‘The War Of The Roses,’ especially as my husband is in it! I’ve often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.
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I’m obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don’t use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that’s smaller and weighted.
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I get a bit gloomy when it’s gloomy.
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I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.
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I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!
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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’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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I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.
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