Francesca Annis Quotes
In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
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I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
