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Obsessing About Weight Is A Big Old Waste Of Time.

We Assume That We've Come So Far As Compassionate Citizens Of The World If We Do Choose To Read The News, Yet The Attitude Towards Life Can Be One Where We Put Blinders On And Forget That There Are Civil Wars Going On. It's Easy To Forget That There Are So Many People Starving To Death Every Single Day.

When I First Thought About Becoming Jane Austen I Had To Forget About The Fear, Or At Least Choose Something Else To Focus On Because It Was Becoming Paralysing, I Couldn't Focus. I Felt Frightened, Not So Much By Her Fans' Reaction To My Performance But That I Would Be Playing Someone Who I Think Is A Legend, Who I Respect And Admire So Much. I Didn't Want To Fail, So I Was Putting A Lot Of Pressure On Myself.

There's Something Very Addictive About People Pleasing. It's A Thought Pattern And A Habit That Feels Really, Really Good Until It Becomes Desperate.

The Way I Go About Choosing Roles Is Basically By Just Trying To Pick The Complete Opposite Of The Last Thing I Did, Or If It Has Someone Else Who I Really Have Wanted To Work With.