Francesca Annis Quotes

• I am pretty self-indulgent.

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• I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I’ve just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone’s 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

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• I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

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• I couldn’t imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

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  Tags in Imagine, Playing

• I do find acting cathartic.

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• I didn’t choose to be an actress.

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• I do think it’s important to live in the present because in that way you won’t be living in a state of regret.

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• I don’t believe in expending energy on something you can’t do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I’d probably do it.

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  Tags in Something, Believe, Things

• I go on giving interviews because I’ve been brought up to support the projects I’m involved in. When you’ve enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

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  Tags in Support, Production, Involved

• I don’t buy the tabloids, but you’re surrounded by it all and people tell you things they’ve read. I’d be sitting on a train looking over someone’s shoulder and thinking: That’s familiar… oh my God, it’s me.

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  Tags in People, Thinking, Looking

• I don’t need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

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  Tags in Suggest, Myself

• I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don’t need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

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  Tags in Public, Statement, Need

• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it’s in the public arena, but that doesn’t entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

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  Tags in Before, Public, Happened

• I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Successful, Women

• I’ll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

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  Tags in Anything, Dance

• I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

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  Tags in People, Surgery, Reasons

• I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

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  Tags in Suffer, Pride

• I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn’t want to advertise make-up. I didn’t want to be seen as a sex symbol.

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  Tags in Advertise, Asked, Symbol

• I’m an actress, not a pin-up.

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  Tags in Actress

• I’m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I’m glad I didn’t go, because if I had I wouldn’t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

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  Topics in Family, Life

  Tags in Special, Realised

Francesca Annis (65)

Birth:	14th May, 1945
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Francesca Annis was born in Kensington, London, England. She is an English actress. Her role in films include: The Eyes of Annie Jones, The Pleasure Girls, Macbeth, Penny Gold,  Krull, Dune, Under the Cherry Moon, The Debt Collector, Copenhagen, The Libertine, Revolver, and Shifty. Her role in television include: Reckless, Wives and Daughters, Deceit, and Cranford. A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie.

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