Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too – I definitely wasn’t denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed. Alex Kingston Read Quote
It’s so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye. Alex Kingston Read Quote
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn’t like them, but I needed to know that they liked me. Alex Kingston Read Quote
I think I’m an extremely good mother. I know I’m an extremely good mother. But I didn’t realise how much it sucks out of you. Alex Kingston Read Quote
For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice. Alex Kingston Read Quote
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is. Alex Kingston Read Quote
One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents’ attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours. Alex Kingston Read Quote
I don’t think my looks are modern. I always imagined I’d end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character. Alex Kingston Read Quote