Jennifer Ehle

Actress

1969-12-29

Quotes by Jennifer Ehle

• People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

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• So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

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• I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

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• There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

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• It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

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• You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

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