Sally Hawkins
Sally Hawkins
Sally Cecilia Hawkinsis an English actress. She made her film debut in Mike Leigh's All or Nothing in 2002. She would continue working with Leigh, appearing in Vera Drakeand in Happy-Go-Lucky, for which she won several awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth27 April 1976
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
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Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.