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-JONESThere 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.
More Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes
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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 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 get a bit gloomy when it’s gloomy.
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I’d love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.
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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’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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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 rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.
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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 came out of the womb wearing make-up!
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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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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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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 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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Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
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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 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 hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a – you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others – and to yourself.
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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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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 love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!
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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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When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.
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