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 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 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 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 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’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’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 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 do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.
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I came out of the womb wearing make-up!
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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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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 to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth – they always look polished afterwards.
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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 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 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 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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