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Rachael Stirling
English
Actress
Born:
May 30
,
1977
About
Me
Myself
People
School
You
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If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.
Rachael Stirling
Fashion
Would
Been
Actor
I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.
Rachael Stirling
Me
Pleasure
Inside
Take
Discovering
I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.
Rachael Stirling
Light
Stage
Baby
Bit
Backstage
Never
Light Bulb
Bulb
Go
Precocious
Decided
Moment
I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.
Rachael Stirling
Work
Great
You
Woman
Yourself
Writing
Mirror
Big
Painting
All Things
Had
Written
Pictures
Look
Fell
Pieces
She
Read
Celebrating
Loved
Quotations
Them
Flesh
Things
I always like a character who makes me laugh.
Rachael Stirling
Character
Me
Laugh
Like
Makes
Always
Who
I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.
Rachael Stirling
Minute
About
Woke
Up
Stopped
Being
Famous
Again
Being Famous
Then
I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.
Rachael Stirling
Love
Good
Women
Interviews
About
Like
Radio
Multitasking
My mum is still totally rocking it. She's appearing in 'Game of Thrones,' which is massively cool.
Rachael Stirling
Game
Totally
Massively
She
Still
Rocking
Which
Game Of Thrones
Cool
Appearing
Mum
I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.
Rachael Stirling
Good
Job
Know
Years
Want
Movie
Movie Star
Next
Working
Star
Keep
I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.
Rachael Stirling
Some
Around
Flash
Want
Pan
I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.
Rachael Stirling
Strong
Feelings
Society
Strong Feelings
About
Purpose
Aristocracy
Sort
Insular
Strand
Serve
Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.
Rachael Stirling
Me
Relationship
Trust
Laughter
Important
Laughing
Would
Would-Be
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Lot
Just
The Most Important
Icing
Thing
I did ballet as a child and started again seven years ago. I love that you hear this exquisite music, and for a moment, you feel like a thing of beauty; it's changed my awareness of my body.
Rachael Stirling
Love
Music
You
Beauty
Awareness
Changed
Seven
Feel
Like
Ballet
Hear
Years
Years Ago
Child
Did
Again
Body
Moment
Exquisite
Thing
Started
I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.
Rachael Stirling
Director
Long
Once
Brought
Cross
Got
Still
Ferociously
Up
Richard
Bill
Grant
Games
Connect
Four
Played
Assistant
Playing
Playing Games
Set
Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.
Rachael Stirling
Too Much
Too
Herself
Harp
Ma
About
Misconception
She
Calls
Formidable
Much
I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.
Rachael Stirling
Work
Myself
Good
Director
People
Better
Long
Other
Panic
Out
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
Long Periods
Talk
Periods
Been
Front
Who
Suggest
I really resent how expensive everything is in London.
Rachael Stirling
Everything
London
How
Expensive
Really
Resent
My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.
Rachael Stirling
Myself
Great
Wise
Women
Wonderful
Instinct
Female
Witty
Surround
Friends
Bank
Ages
Company
I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.
Rachael Stirling
Myself
Theatre
Down
Head
Until
Learn
Got
How
Up
Fully
Grow
Grow Up
Serve
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
Rachael Stirling
Me
People
School
Girl
Took
Dances
Those
Ours
Introduce
Tried
Never
Supposed
Cleverest
Because
Boy
Always
Dear
Were
His
Friends
Just
Children
Them
Dad
I used to worry about the lack of roles for women over 40. But suddenly, everyone has realised it's interesting to have a drama with a woman at the centre of it.
Rachael Stirling
Woman
Women
Drama
Everyone
Worry
About
Over
Roles
Lack
Realised
Interesting
Centre
Used
Suddenly
'Ambitious' is seen as a dirty word, especially when it comes to women. But what being ambitious actually means is to achieve distinction in your chosen field.
Rachael Stirling
Women
Achieve
Word
Seen
Field
Distinction
Dirty
Ambitious
Being
Means
Your
Chosen
Actually
I have never met anybody who likes 'The Detectorists' that I don't like.
Rachael Stirling
Met
Never
Like
Likes
Anybody
Who
When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.
Rachael Stirling
Differences
Manners
Enjoy
Think
Other
Our
Out
Must
Date
Taking
Without
Still
Exist
Comment
Going
Just
Place
Mean
Us
Certain
Old-Fashioned
Away
In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.
Rachael Stirling
Whatever
Feel
Combination
Like
Always
Scotland
Southern
Yorkshire
Mum
Bones
I'm not really Bond girl material, and that's fine by me. I'm a grafter; I'm not a star.
Rachael Stirling
Me
Girl
Fine
Material
Really
Star
Bond
Bond Girl
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