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ACTRESS EMILY MORTIMER ON MOVING from London to the United States:
"I was forced to take myself seriuosly for the first time, because not taking yourself seiously out here just doesn't compute. When I first arrived, I got chatting to this producer at a party. He asked me what I did and I said 'Oh, I'm an actress' - and you just hate hearing yourself say those words because its such a fucking cliche. So I said, 'But I'm not a very good one.' It totally freaked him out, as if I'd said, 'I eat babies.'"
From British GQ September 2005.
"I was forced to take myself seriuosly for the first time, because not taking yourself seiously out here just doesn't compute. When I first arrived, I got chatting to this producer at a party. He asked me what I did and I said 'Oh, I'm an actress' - and you just hate hearing yourself say those words because its such a fucking cliche. So I said, 'But I'm not a very good one.' It totally freaked him out, as if I'd said, 'I eat babies.'"
From British GQ September 2005.


