Anne Reid Quotes
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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'm more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.
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I like my own company.
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I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.
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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 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.
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I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.
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If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.
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Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.
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What I really want is an Oscar.
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I tell myself things will be different in a few years' time, but this is the most wonderful, golden time for me. I'm basking in the success of 'Tango', really loving it.
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Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.
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I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.
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I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
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I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.
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Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
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I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
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My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!
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You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?
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I did go to public school, but that's only because my parents were abroad. As a matter of fact, I think that's helped my work. I can go from Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' to playing Barbara Cartland, from 'Coronation Street' to playing Celia in Last 'Tango'.
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Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman.
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I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.
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I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
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I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't.