Anna Friel Quotes

• And the most important thing – apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character – is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you’re playing a murderer or rapist.

  Anna Friel

• David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

  Anna Friel

• For Closer, we’ve had five weeks. You go into every single word because it’s very, very concentrated dialogue.

  Anna Friel

• For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

  Anna Friel

• I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

  Anna Friel

• I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You’re bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

  Anna Friel

• I play a character every day of my life, and I don’t want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I’m not a spokeswoman for Anna.

  Anna Friel

• I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

  Anna Friel

• I’ve always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you’re not limited.

  Anna Friel

• I’ve been onstage once for one performance with four days’ rehearsal.

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• I’ve never been onstage in my life.

  Anna Friel

• It’s really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

  Anna Friel

• Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

  Anna Friel

• Onstage, there’s no hiding; you either can or can’t act. There’s no second take.

  Anna Friel

• People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

  Anna Friel

• The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

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• We will spend more time in America, we’re going to get a place in LA as hotels aren’t great for the baby.

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• Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I’ll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

  Anna Friel

• Well it’s hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn’t work like that.

  Anna Friel

• You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I’d never let that happen. If it does, I’ll go and live on a desert island for a year.

  Anna Friel

Anna Friel (22)

Birth:	12th July, 1976
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Anna Louise Friel was born in Rochdale, in Greater Manchester. She is an English actress. She has been acting since the age of 13, appearing in a number of British television programmes. She played Beth Jordache on the Channel 4 soap Brookside which had the first lesbian kiss in a British soap opera in January 1994. She made her West End stage début in London in 2001, and has subsequently appeared on stage in several productions, including an adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's and as Yelena in a 2012 production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Outside of film, she is probably best known in the USA for her work as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles in the ABC comedy series Pushing Daisies for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2008. She is the recipient of a number of awards including National Television Award, Drama Desk Award, and the Royal Television Society Award. She has also appeared in music videos and television and print media advertising campaigns and is the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Bolton.

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