Anne Reid Quotes
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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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'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'
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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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I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.
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I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.
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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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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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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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Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman.
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You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?
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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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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 can wear yourself out by saying yes to things you don't want to do, and nobody really minds if you say no. I enjoy my own company. I'm never at a loss for things to do.
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I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
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I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.
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I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.
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I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
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I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.
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I like my own company.
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You don't feel old when you get old.
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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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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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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 did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'