Saffron Burrows Quotes

• I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

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  Strong, Thinking, Feminist

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• I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

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  Being In Love, Reason, Reason To Live

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• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

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  Successful, Actors, Film

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• For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.

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  Interesting, People, Individual

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• Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

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  Theatre, Cameras, Rooms

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• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

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  People, Important, Desire

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• I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

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  Wine, Meals, Want

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• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

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  Moving, Actors, Film

  "Word comes through that another punch-up has taken place. Blimey. It's only day three..." by Saffron Burrows, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2001.

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• Una agente de modelos me recogió en una calle de Londres. Me llevó a su oficina y luego me envió a París a trabajar en desfiles. Iba a estar dos semanas, pero acabé viviendo allí con mi novio zimbabuense. Gané suficiente dinero modelando y actuando en películas francesas como para comprarme un bonito piso.

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  Nice, Two, Paris

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• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

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  School, Littles, Stuff

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• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

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  Party, School, Organization

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• I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

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  America, People, Pockets

  "Sufferin' Saffron". Interview with Steve Applebaum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2000.

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• I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

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  Home, Mean, Acting

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• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

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  Stupid, Silly, Sometimes

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• When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

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  Needs, Life Is, Should

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• My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

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  Thinking, Parent, Political

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• It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

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  Hollywood, Helping, Film

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• When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

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  Children, Pumps, Way

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• He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

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  Lunch, Laughing, Together

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• I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

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  Very Good, Stills

  "A hint of Saffron" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2002.

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• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

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  Song, Guitar, Years

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• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

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  Thinking, Movement, Unions

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• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

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  Years, Giving, Documentaries

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• I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

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  Reactions, Stage, Feels

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• It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

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  Helping, Knows, Bits

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