Francesca Annis Quotes
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I didn't choose to be an actress.
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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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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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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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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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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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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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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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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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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'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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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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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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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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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 do find acting cathartic.
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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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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.