Claire Bloom Quotes

• Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it’s not totally revolting, I’ll do it.

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• I am interested in the art. I’m a professional woman.

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• I don’t enjoy the life of an actress, but I don’t want to go into that.

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• I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.

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• I don’t think actresses’ lives in general are very good.

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• I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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• I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have accomplished it.

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• I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

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  Tags in Choose, Breath

• I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

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• I’ve spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

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• In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

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• Security has no place in the life of an actress.

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• In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

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• My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

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  Tags in Fortune, Myself

• In my day, people didn’t do nude scenes. I mean they didn’t exist.

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• There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

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• When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

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  Tags in Since, American, Vicious

• You can’t pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can’t fake that.

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  Tags in Fake, Pretend

Claire Bloom (18)

Birth:	15th February, 1931
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Patricia Claire Blume was born in Finchley, London, England. She  is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is famous for leading roles in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day's Journey into Night, and has starred in nearly sixty films. She had her debut on the London stage when she was sixteen, and soon took roles in various Shakespeare plays. In 2010, Bloom played the role of Queen Mary in the British film, The King's Speech, and she currently acts in British films. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

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