Saffron Burrows quotes

Saffron Burrows is an English actress and model, recognized for her roles in both film and television. Her work spans acclaimed performances in movies such as "Deep Blue Sea" and popular series like "Mozart in the Jungle." She is also known for her activism and advocacy for social and human rights issues. Here are 29 of her quotes:

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

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You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

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I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

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I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

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...people shouldn't have to make statements and their lives should be private if they want to be. But I think if someone's feeling restricted by not making a statement, then they should be free to do so. I chose to speak to you because I don't want to lie by omission and I want to be very straightforward about my life...

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As a seven-year-old, I remember people were appalling – they would just comment on his physicality...We'd walk down the street together and people would shout out insults. I remember feeling incredibly angry.

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...Teenagers today are so fluid and non-binary; they're fantastically unafraid. My house [growing up] was a bit like that. I've loved men and I've loved women and I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted. We could talk about everything in the world.

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If you're told that's how you behave in order to survive and flourish, then you actually question far less in your 20s and 30s because you think: ‘Oh, nothing's as bad as that.' So it's a real issue. No one wants their teenage daughter thinking that's what you should expect from your life.

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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

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When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

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If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

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I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

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It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

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My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

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What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

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