Quotes by Amanda Burton - Page 1

No, I always wanted to be an actress.
Amanda Burton / Actress
Actresses
Wanted
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I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
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Home
Animal
Imagine
Animals
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I have sleepless nights before press days.
Amanda Burton / Actress
Night
Presses
Sleepless Nights
Nights
Sleepless
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Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.
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Giving
Trying
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It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.
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Age
Obsessed
People
Age Me People
Interests
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What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.
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Attitude
Stupid
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If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.
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Running
Fields
Want
Option
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Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
Amanda Burton / Actress
Actors
Children
Stories
Extension
Telling
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I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
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Fascinated
Locks
Observing
People
Thinking
People Think Like
People Like Think
Suppose
Listener
Lock
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I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
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Acting
Lucky
Years
Exactly What
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Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
Amanda Burton / Actress
Running
Building
Building Up
Focus
Properly
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It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.
Amanda Burton / Actress
Doing What You Want
Energy
Generations
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I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.
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Ducks
People
Sitting
Thinking
Duck
Remain
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I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.
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Girl
Bigger
Breasts
Despair
People
Work Done People
Work People Nothing
Tale
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I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
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Exactly What
In The Past
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I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.
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Beach
Dark
Grateful
Upbringing
Beaches
Complete
Wandering
Storms
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I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
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Emotion
Gloom
Pieces
Thinking
Deeply
Dragging
Immersed
Involve
Piece
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I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
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Character
Great People
Ideas
Inspiration
Great Start Always
Anyone Else
Great Character Always
Draw
Scratch
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I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.
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Birth
Cutting
Drama
School
Theatre
Channel
Drama School
Exciting Time
Gearing
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Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
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Department
Drama
Forgotten
Intriguing
Concept
Immediately
Led
Presented
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I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
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Becoming
Gore
Looks
Nine
Prepared
Silent
Use
Witness
Years
Life Me Look
Now
Away
Before
Neck
Life Look Me
Misfortune
Tend
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I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.
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Effort
Enormous
Everyday
Years
Continuously
Project
More Or Less
So Many Years
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But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.
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Active
Drama
Levels
School
Secondary Education
Sitting
All Day
Education Myself Me
Desk
Dragged
Drama School
Secondary
Suited
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I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.
Amanda Burton / Actress
Home
Beach
Holiday
Papers
Taken
Bought
Photographs
Copy
Costume
Dreadful
Wearing
Local
Looked
Published
Recently
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I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.
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Angry
Endless
Humiliating
Magazines
Programmes
Reality
Reality Tv
Thinking
Wonder
Worst
Tv
Apart
Cheap
Flaw
Picking
Poking
Pressures
Suddenly
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I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
Amanda Burton / Actress
Primary School
Secondary Education
Sitting
Daughters
All Day
Education I Am Day
Desk
Primary
Secondary
Youngest
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