Jenny Agutter Quotes

• Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I’ve been involved with are pieces of work that I’m proud of, so I’m very happy for people to focus on them.

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• To make films is as boring as watching paint dry – you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back – the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

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• Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

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• So I’m not really quite sure what Landis’ plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

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• I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it’s lovely to remember being so young but it’s also good to know you grew up!

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• I’ve done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they’re good reviews – you believe that and you’re lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that’s true and you read that and you’re lost.

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  Tags in Theatre, Reviews, Believing

• I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn’t give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

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• It’s such a strange combination that I’d be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

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• The things that I’ve done that have totally been remembered, they’ve always started with the same kind of engine, they’ve always started with someone saying ‘I have to make this film – I’m going to make this film whatever the odds’.

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• I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn’t imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

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• But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film’s about. A very straightforward young woman who’s very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.

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Jenny Agutter (11)

Birth:	20th December, 1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Jennifer Ann Agutter was born in Taunton, Somerset, England. She is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964's East of Sudan and went on to appear in Star!. Her role in several films include: Walkabout, Logan's Run, Equus (Won- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), The Riddle of the Sands, Sweet William, The Survivor (Nominated- Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role), An American Werewolf in London (Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Actress), Dark Tower, Child's Play 2, Irina Palm, Glorious 39, Outside Bet, and Queen of the Desert. Her role in television include: The Snow Goose (TV movie, Won- Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama), The Alan Clark Diaries (TV serial), and Call the Midwife (TV series). She married to Johan Tham in 1990. They have a son, Jonathan Tham.

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