Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE is an English actress. In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her role as Nora in A Doll's House. She also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Mary Jo Walker in the 1999 film Tumbleweeds, and was nominated for the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 August 1961
girly thinking hands
I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.
mother growing-up generations
Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.
space marketing tools
I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.
home garden lovely
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
mirrors auditions succeed
Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.
believe thinking waiting
It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
fun tumbleweeds paid
I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
people focus want
I just want people to focus on the performance.
two people goes-on
I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.
watches persons performances
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
new-yorkers
New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.
jobs drama coffee
But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.
men hair play
If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.
mother father years
My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.