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Jane Horrocks

lines on the record: 52
first: 2006-10-08
most recent: 2006-10-08
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, I blow my nose, continually, and I just couldn't bear the idea of blowing it on a bit of an old leaf, or so I'd want an endless supply of tissues, then I could just always blow my nose comfortably.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I choose Jamie Oliver's Dinners. Yes,'cause I like all his recipes in there. I've great admiration for Jamie Oliver. I think he's brilliant. Yes, I just would think oh, I haven't made that yet when I get back I'll make that”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Jennifer Saunders wrote a spin off with all the same actors from absolutely fabulous and it was called Miraball, and I think I was doing I was making an album at the time and I was somewhere I think recording the music in New York and I got the cold say would you do a little stint in this one off and they said it's this song which I'd never heard before and I just loved it and I loved singing the song it's great and Bonnie Langford was also in this one off singing before me she was in the audience and when I finished doing the song she went Well it's never going to be a hit is it darling?”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right, yes. Yes. We wanted different things at the time, so it, you know, I was a little bit fed up with my career and wanted to have a family life. And, you know, Sam was at the height of his profession and wanted to, you know, keep going quite rightly, but I didn't want that. I wanted to. wanted a breed”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well we became friends after that and we talked about doing other projects, and we were both with people at the time, so nothing was going to happen romantically, and then we broke up from our respective partners and got together.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think he'd had a bit of a thing about me. He actually saw me originally and rode to the play of Road, and apparently I said hello to him. He thought, I like her. So then he got a picture of me and put the picture over his laptop.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We met because he wrote a television piece called Dancing Queen, which he really wanted me to be in, and it was to play the part of a stripper, and I wasn't very happy about taking my clothes off. Turned it down, and he continued to pursue me and”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's exactly. And Neil Young was a big part of the parties. You got the spare chain. You've got to feel strange. And now the”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, actually Mark Rylance introduced me to Neil Young whilst I was doing the Scottish play, and that was sort of the highlight. It was a very difficult tour that were went on with that play because it was disliked. And so the reception we got was not great each night. And so the parties were the bonus.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't have any At the moment, I do when I'm working, I employ somebody, but I try and avoid it, because Nannies nowadays are not like Julie Andrews.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, not very neurotic Yes, about tidiness and obsessively feeding my children and looking after my kids and making sure that they're yes, well fed, is there?”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I mean, I think I've become less obsessive as time's gone on, and a bit lazier, actually about research, and I found that not doing the research people were just as responsive, so I'm less neurotic about that now.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it just takes over. I can't stop thinking about it. And when people say, oh, well, you're doing theatre, you're only there two hours in an evening. You know, what's the problem? It's not that. It sort of consumes you throughout the whole day.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean I understood that production because I was working on it and the director Mark Rylance made us all understand it. So it was sort of even more frustrating when friends came and thought when it's really clear is this production so it was more frustrating when they did come and say actually we didn't know what was going on. But when I've had to be dragged along to see Shakespeare of a friends in it, I just don't know what they're talking about.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't really understand it, to be honest, and the people that I used to invite come and see it didn't understand it either, so I thought, well, it's very frustrating, is this, because I've spent all this energy every night doing this, and for them say, well, we didn't really know what was going on. You think great”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not really, because I didn't get offered any other parts that were similar to that. I thought I would have always got the brainless parts sent to me, but not actually that was the only one. Yeah, I mean, it's a brilliant idea that they have this useless secretary and very, very clever writing. You know, it was sort of definitive in its way.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's Bork, I miss you I was madly in love well not in love, but infatuated by a guy during this time that I had this song and he was working in Australia and I had a tape made of the song and sent to the record to Australia to him and it was the most romantic thing that I've ever done and I think he quite appreciated it as well but the song sort of said everything about our relationship at the time but it wasn't going to go anywhere basically.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I do and I like the ones that aren't even though Julie Andrews is perfect, her voice is perfect. I like the ones that aren't perfect as well, and when you listen to the old Judy, you know, it's all over the place, but I just love that because it's so full of emotion, and that's what I like. I like to have a good cry when I listen to a song.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think more saw in the film because you know people are much more nitpicky when they can use the rewind that was pretty dodgy that note I mean I did work hard on the play but much harder for the film”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes I don't know where to place them as me it sounds really awful when I sing as me but I mean particularly doing something like Shirley Basset I just couldn't hit the notes that she hits unless I think of her and place my voice in a certain way so it's just really very weird”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it depended I tired I was, actually. Sometimes, you know, when you been out in the evening and then, you know, you try to do it the next night and your voice. I mean, because I'm not trained, so I can't fall back on anything technical. Yeah, it was quite difficult sometimes, and doing Judy, because a lot of it, a lot of the Judy stuff was unaccompanied, and I didn't have an earpiece, so I just had to sort of take my own pitch. And yeah, sometimes that was quite hard And I couldn't be bothered doing the last note. It was like, I just did a sort of flat, quiet version of it, a real cop out.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, is the Carnegie Hole recording which is nineteen sixty one and it was Judy Garland's big comeback performance and it's a fantastic record and she seems to do hours and hours on this concert and there's some yeah I mean but this in particular is a superb recording of the song and I like her singing it as an older woman. I'm not particularly bothered about her singing over the rainbow in the film but this is it becomes much more poignant because of what she as a woman had gone through.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. Lunchtime. Exactly. He said, I'll write a play about that and didn't think that he would. And two years later he came out with the rise and fall of Little Voice”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did a play called Road at the Royal Court, and that was written by Jim Cartwright, and when I finished that play had a lunch with Jim Cartwright in my back garden, and he said you can do impersonations, can't you? Somebody said. I said, yeah, do a few. He said, Oh, you can you do. So I did them for him. He said,”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nor because Mike Lee's very intent on you being objective about your character, so you're supposed to leave the character at the end of the day. And that was quite tough in a way, but no, I didn't go home and reach for the scarves and the chocolate sauce.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was quite difficult. I mean, the way that Mike Lee works is you research the character massively. You start with a person that you know as a springboard for the character. And so you're sort of gradually building up the person. And you do become you become very attached to them because you sort of live in that person all the time, really. It was difficult. It was very difficult to shed her at the end.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I used to listen to this quite a lot when I was doing the film Life is Sweet because my character was massively into Bono or Bono and Used to listen to this particular song whilst the character was being sick.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the tutors suggested that I might mellow it, and actually it has mellowed since I left Lancashire, and when I used to go back home during the holidays people used to say why are you speaking posh? You think I'm not?”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well great actually, and I got more I was discriminated against much more at Oldham Tech than I was at Rada. I mean people yourself, what a silly voice. We can't understand a word you're saying at Old'em and they never did that at Rada.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, Ray Fines and Imogen Stubbs were in my term and, you know, Neil Dudgeon was in my term as well. So it was a very mixed bunch of people.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I probably applied to about ten or twelve, something like that. Yeah, no, I was rejected from all the others. That was the only one that wanted me.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was a choice between Fred Fenakan and Salome. Oscar Wilde Salome. And it was great. I mean, I dressed up as Gracie and I finished off the evening and all the audience joined in, which was lovely.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was introduced to Grace by a friend at Rada, Tim McCurdy, and he had this album and he said, I think you'd really like Gracer Fields. So we played the album on my old record player. And it just made us laugh. We just used to sit round listening to it”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just think she's a fantastic comedian. And there was always a real good story in her comedy singing. And that's what, you know, I just found it hilarious.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it wasn't. I mean, I went to Oldham College of Technology and did A levels in English and a foundation course in drama, so that was the sort of beginning of my acting career, as it was, yeah.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, I was a freak. It was very weird for people to see me looking like that because they knew my family. So it's like, let me see Jane Norris. She looks. My dad just used to walk, you know, 100 yards in front of me and disown me. He didn't want to be seen to be with Miff.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I did go through a period whilst I was into joy division of dressing up idiotically my dad's string vests with something underneath, although I didn't really have very much to hide and combat trousers and little, you know, sort of tutos and with the string vest as well.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I spoose there's a bit of an anarchic side to me, which I not toy in the line, and I don't know where that comes from. That's always appealed to me, the unconventional.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Next record is transmission by Jaw Division. Like a lot of my choices, the singers are, you know, have a very sad side to them. And Ian Curtis committed suicide in, I think it was 1980. So he had a very short career. And the lyrics really had an effect on me, I think. And it sort of stayed with me and still is, you know, with me now, those lyrics”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, very neat, yes, yes, the presentation was much more important to me than the content, which is probably why I didn't do very well in my exams.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very shy, actually. Again, you know, that's where it came from me sort of feeling that I became somebody through being somebody else. And my friend, Patsy, is still a very close friend, was incredibly popular at school, and had lots of boyfriends, but nobody had quite with me. What can I do that makes me popular? Oh well, sick people seem to like these impersonations, so perhaps I'll be the comedian she can carry on being the sex symbol.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Though singing was a big part of the Methodist world I don't know, I think that she just thought it was precocious. She just yeah, she didn't want me to be a little shorebiz kid.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, the neighbours ask me, and my mum used to go, Oh no, she's not doing that. No, no, no, she's not getting up. Oh, no, my mum find it a bit embarrassing really. I mean, she did, you know, sort of think that I was quite good at doing it, but she wasn't sort of promoting me in that way.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think she was the beginning of it, and then I found that I could impersonate other people, and At school we used to do new faces in the lunch hour, and you know I did most of the voices and my friend Patsy compared. But”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't really know. I mean, I think I was delighted by the fact that I could sound like her. And I mean, I just loved her voice really. It was an adoration of her more than anything.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, for Christmas, the year before, no, actually when I was nine, I was given the sound of music, the album, the sound of music, and I just loved listening to Julie Andrews. I thought she had the most perfect voice on earth and sang along to it. And for my tenth birthday, me and my friend Beverly Reed put on a shore of the same music, which was the whole album, and my brothers did scenery for it, but I had to be Julie, so my friend had to be all the men character. So that was really what got me, what inspired me to become an actress.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not always I think when I was nine that was when I sort of decided that I really wanted to act. And I think once I discovered that I could impersonate people and I could make them laugh through doing the impersonations, I just thought, oh, this is my territory. This is my niche in life”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's massive, and the physicality massively helps the Yeah, that stature has got to be play a part in the sound of the voice. And as soon as I got that then I was away flying”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Big bosoms. Yes, I think of those and she always stuck them out, she always presented her bosoms. They came first. That's what I think about really, that's what she's doing. You know, it's a presentation of a bosom.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The process is to think them and think their physicality. Think what their essence is and just morph into them basically.”
2006-10-08 · Desert Island Discs · Jane Horrocks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source