Rebecca Front

Actress

1964-05-16

Quotes by Rebecca Front

• The Thick of It' is not 'Spitting Image,' mocking recognisable establishment figures of the day. The writers don't so much react to real events as predict them.

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• I was convinced that death was stalking my family, because my grandfather died a couple of days after my dad nearly drowned.

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• My great-grandfather was a miner who went off and became an entertainer for a few years to get out of the mines. He wasn't a great showbusiness success story, but clearly loved it.

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• The 'mirror face,' it's called in my house. Most of us have one, if we're honest. Mine comes from arching my eyebrows, sucking in my cheeks and pouting a little. I do it when I'm putting on make-up and when I'm trying on clothes.

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• I've had claustrophobia pretty well all my life. It started in Durham Cathedral, which seems odd because it is a pretty large space. We went up the tower because, as I often said to my children, these are the kind of things we used to do for laughs in the 1970s. You had to do something on Sundays. Everything was closed.

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• Football has traditionally been the passion of the working man, and when you love something it's natural to want to claim ownership of it.

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• Sedaris is an American humourist and one of the authors I go back to most often. His books contain observations on life, quite anecdotal pieces. I'm a sucker for a casual but intelligent writing style, and his stories properly make me laugh out loud.

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