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Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

English Actress

Born: Jul 14, 1974

Always Got Me People Think You

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A few things make a person stylish: honesty, imagination with a sprinkling of humour. I still keep an eye on trends, but I don't follow them any more. Maxine Peake

Honesty Few Imagination Humour Trends Eye Follow More Make Stylish Still Person Few Things Any Them Keep Things

I've always had pop-star crushes. I had a huge crush on Ian Brown. Maxine Peake

Brown Had Crush Crushes Always Huge

I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric. Maxine Peake

I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around. Maxine Peake

Crying does not equal good acting. Maxine Peake

Good Equal Crying Does Good Acting Acting

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent. Maxine Peake

Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene. Maxine Peake

Music First Style Wave Scene Inspiration New Got Huge

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it. Maxine Peake

Once Something Like Fix Really Unimaginative

I remember when New Labour got in. I was at Salford Tech studying drama, and everyone was jumping up and down, and I was so upset, I went to a phone box and called my granddad. Maxine Peake

Phone Remember Down Drama Everyone Remember When Studying New Box Got Up Up And Down Jumping Labour Upset Tech

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors. Maxine Peake

I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member. Maxine Peake

Every job still feels like the first time. Maxine Peake

Time Job First Every Feels Like First Time Still

I'm very independent, probably quite selfish, and like being able to disappear at the drop of a hat without having to explain myself - most men would find that a pain, wouldn't they? Maxine Peake

Myself Selfish Men Drop Pain Independent Would Hat Find Able Having Disappear Like Most Without Very Quite Being Explain

I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices. Maxine Peake

You Woman Think Sacrifices Make Got Many

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified. Maxine Peake

Country Constantly Still Ignored Who Vilified

We shouldn't still be asking, 'Have you got children? Why've you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!' Bog off, d'you know what I mean? Maxine Peake

You Must Know Got Still Off Children Mean Asking

When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable. Maxine Peake

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