Saffron Burrows Quotes

• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  Saffron Burrows

  Topics in History, Politics

• I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Nice

• He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I’ve never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh, Together

• It’s always a help when you have worked with someone as you’ve got to know them a bit already.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Help

• I like working on stage because there’s something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they’re with you.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Working, Whether

• Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you’ve finished work is very underrated!

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Living

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Model

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

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  Topics in Family, Politics

  Tags in School

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from ‘The Guitar’ on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Play, Pretty

• For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn’t about dalliances – it’s about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It’s not about something flighty.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Find

• Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It’s like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Small

• My parents were political, so it’s definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it’s in your bloodstream, it’s always there. I love it.

  Saffron Burrows

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Parents

• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Number

• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  Saffron Burrows

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sometimes, Wonder

• I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Reason

• I have seen the Gore documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  Saffron Burrows

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Talk

• I’ll always take Scrabble and chess if I’m going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chess, Always

• It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn’t exposed to that as a young woman.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Exposed

• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I’d say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Broad, Going

• When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

  Saffron Burrows

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Wanted

Saffron Burrows (25)

Birth:	22nd October, 1972
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

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