Francesca Annis Quotes

• I’m one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I’m waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

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  Tags in Great, Waiting, Something

• I’m trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I’m not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

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  Tags in Trying, Character, Weird

• I’ve never been married and I’ve no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

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  Tags in Religious, Married, Desire

• Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Theatre

• If people think I look good, it’s the make-up.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Good

• Roman’s wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

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  Tags in Private, Strong

• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

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  Tags in Audience, Actors

• Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there’s nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

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  Tags in Admire, Nothing, Sometimes

• Thank God we’re not like America: everyone wants to look like they’re 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women.

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  Tags in Think, Women, Admire

• The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you’re always vulnerable to the weather and time.

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  Tags in Look, Thing

• The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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  Tags in Nothing, Accept, Thing

• The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

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  Tags in Interesting, Wonderful, Personal

• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Formidable, Friends

• There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren’t just about eroticism and s*xuality.

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  Tags in Relationship, Celebration

• You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It’s very exciting to test yourself.

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  Tags in Careful, Things, Yourself

• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Protect, Lawyer

• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There’ll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Different, Person, Things

• You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

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  Tags in Rare, Truly

• I don’t think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

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  Tags in Shock, Seeing

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forward, Drama

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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