Samantha Bond Quotes

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• Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

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  Girl, Heart, Years

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• I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

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  Ideas, Scales, Following

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• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

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  People, Pedestal, Way

  "Samantha Bond: Don't call me Miss Moneypenny". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

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  Men, People, Sick

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• I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

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  Children, Thinking, Giving

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• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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  Loss, Parent, Loss Of A Parent

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• When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

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  Beautiful, Littles, Actresses

  "Samantha Bond: Why So Few Middle-aged Women on TV?". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

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  Thinking

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• The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

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  New York, Airports, Done

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• I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

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  Mother, Blood, Creative

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• My best friend is my husband.

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  Husband, My Best Friend, My Husband

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• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

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  Teenager, People, Rooms

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• I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

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  Upset Stomach, Be Careful, Upset

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• I always have bananas with me for energy.

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  Energy, Bananas

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• The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

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  Bed, Watches, Television

  "Samantha Bond: why so few middle-aged women on TV?" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

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  Father, Dames, Actors

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• I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

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  Reason, Turbulence, Tense

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• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

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  Middle, Pops, Sensational

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• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

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  Dying, Goes On, Pasta

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• The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

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  Charity, Able, Bigs

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• I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

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  Looks, Television, Youth

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• Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.

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  Memories, Special, Stories

  "Poirot and me" by Samantha Bond, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2013.

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• I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

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  Holiday, Family Holiday, Relaxed

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• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

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  Night, Play, Long

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• My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.

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  Long, Nicknames, Film

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