Anne Reid Quotes
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I'm past it now - love. I can't imagine it happening again.
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The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.
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Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.
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Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.
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My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
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I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.
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I'm terribly happy at the moment - someone up there must be looking out for me.
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I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.
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I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
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The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse.
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I'm not homophobic. I mean, who cares? You know the state of the world, and you're only here for about 70, 80, years, so why do people worry about somebody's sex life? It's bonkers, really.
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For the first part of my career, I did what I was told, and I wasn't getting anywhere. I'd get in such a state when I was asked to do something, and it didn't feel right, and I'd end up feeling that I wasn't very good.
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My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
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We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.
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I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.
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In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.
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My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.
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My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
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I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.
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Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.
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I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.
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My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation.
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I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.
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I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.