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.
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I don’t eat carbs after 17h00 and I drink skimmed milk.
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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 have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.
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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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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 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 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 like ‘Zorro.’ I like people you can believe that don’t have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He’s just a guy working for the people, to save the people.
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I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.
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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 buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They’re too beautiful to wear.
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I’d love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.
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I get a bit gloomy when it’s gloomy.
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Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
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I came out of the womb wearing make-up!
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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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When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.
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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 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 like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I’m sexy. I think he is too. But I don’t go out half-naked with ‘sex’ written across my back.
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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
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It’s true, I don’t like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.
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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 remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
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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 eat like a horse – my mother still brings me Cadbury’s chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite – but I work out.
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