Francesca Annis Quotes

• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

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• 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

• 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

• 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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  Tags in System, Protect, Lawyer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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  Tags in Audience, Actors

• 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

• 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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  Tags in People, Good

• 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

• 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’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 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

• I’m an actress, not a pin-up.

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  Tags in Actress

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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