Anne Reid Quotes
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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 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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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 more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.
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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 like my own company.
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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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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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I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
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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 never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.
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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 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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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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Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman.
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What I really want is an Oscar.
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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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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'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.