Amanda Burton Quotes

• Whatever I’m doing, I try to give it everything.

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• What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

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• Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

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• No, I always wanted to be an actress.

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• It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

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• If I want to run around a field when I’m 70, I would like to have that option.

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• I’m becoming more squeamish. I didn’t use to be – nine years of ‘Silent Witness’ prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I’d be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

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• I’d been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama – it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

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• I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

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• I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 – I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn’t really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don’t enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

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• I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 – I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him.

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• I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had ‘bikini’d’ me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

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• I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I’m grateful to my parents for that.

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• I think you know what you’re up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions – you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

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• I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

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• I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I’ve been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

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• I like to think I’m a listener, and I’m fascinated by observing people – I suppose you just lock that in.

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• I have sleepless nights before press days.

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• I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

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• I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

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Amanda Burton (28)

Birth:	10th October, 1956
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Actress

About

Amanda Burton was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. She is a Northern Irish actress, active from 1981. During her career, Burton was best known for her television roles as Heather Black in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, Beth Glover in Peak Practice, Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama series Silent Witness, Clare Blake in The Commander and Karen Fisher in Waterloo Road. After attending Londonderry High School, a girls only secondary school in the city of Derry, she moved to England at the age of 18, where she spent three years studying drama at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre. Whilst there she met theatre technician Jonathan Hartley, whom she married when she was 20. Although best known for her television roles, Burton had worked almost exclusively in the theatre prior to landing the role of Heather Black in Channel 4's Liverpool-based flagship drama series Brookside. She played the role of Doctor Beth Glover in the medical drama series, based in Derbyshire's Peak District, for three series until her departure in 1995. In 1996 she then took the main role of Professor Sam Ryan in the highly acclaimed BBC drama Silent Witness, she held this role until 2004.

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