Francesca Annis Quotes
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I didn't choose to be an actress.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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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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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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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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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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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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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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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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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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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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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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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.