I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it’s only acting. Please. Maxine Peake Read Quote
Everybody’s in a situation; everybody has a story. It’s about finding out why. Maxine Peake Read Quote
We take things at face value, don’t we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first. Maxine Peake Read Quote
I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it’s more about ego than playing the character truthfully. Maxine Peake Read Quote
It’s interesting when people say, ‘You always play strong women,’ because as far as I’m concerned, women are strong. I think that’s what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors. Maxine Peake Read Quote
When I’m going to work, I often stop and wonder how I’ve got here. I don’t mean literally, but just thinking back to when I first had the idea of being an actress, it seemed so unreal, so unlikely. People like me just didn’t become actresses. Every new job I get comes as shock. It’s almost as if I’m waiting to be found out. Maxine Peake Read Quote
At drama school, I was told, ‘Lay off the chips, or you’ll never play Juliet.’ Sometimes, in the stock room of the set of ‘Dinnerladies,’ I’d put away three or four Mars bars while waiting for a scene. Then, at 24, I lost five stone. Maxine Peake Read Quote
When we were doing ‘Criminal Justice,’ they were filming ‘Clash of the Titans’ nearby and we kept nicking off to their catering tent and going, ‘Look what they’ve got!’ Maxine Peake Read Quote
I look up to the older generation of men – Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn – but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He’s brilliant, very political, quite eccentric. Maxine Peake Read Quote
