Greta Scacchi Quotes

1. My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

2. I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

3. The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.


4. I want to come across as a positive person.

5. When I was bringing my daughter up alone, my bank manager came over for tea so he could tell me how worried he was about my overdraft.

6. Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.


7. Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.


8. A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

9. Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.





10. In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

11. One of the most important things about going there was that when I was 18 I met Daniel Day-Lewis. I was madly in love with him and got to glimpse him before others.

12. I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

13. I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.


14. Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.


15. I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

16. I had to turn down things that were sometimes at the expense of my career in order to find variety, in an effort not to be pigeon-holed.

17. (on having her ears pierced for the first time especially to play Cuban refugee Isabel in Fires Within) It felt very strange to have pierced ears and to feel those big earrings tugging at my earlobes and banging against my neck every time I moved. But when I was doing my initial research into the role after I decided to take it, I found out that all Cuban women have their ears pierced when they're little girls, and most of them wear big hoop earrings a lot of the time, so it would look a little odd if I didn't do the same. And it actually did help me get into character as Isabel, so it was definitely worth the slight pain of having them pierced in the first place.

18. On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.


19. I felt very cynical about love.

20. I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyond 40, but I didn't realize it would start at 35.

21. Between them, the films of Julie Christie and Alan Bates taught me everything I needed to know about sex at the age of 13. 



22. I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realize that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

23. It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.







24. I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

25. I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

26. Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.







27. I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

28. I'm more keen on the person I'm involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.





29. The world has treated me very well, but then I haven't treated it so badly either.

30. With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

31. You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.




32. I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

33. I felt the thrill of a journey in a play where the writer gives you the power to take the audience with you, to have it eating out of your hand.




34. People say that Hedda is the Hamlet of women actors but for me it's Nora with her thrilling, chilling lines.


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