Top 40 Francesca Annis Quotes

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

I don’t need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

I like having a good time. It’s probably my mother’s Brazilian genes in me – party, party.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It’s very exciting to test yourself.

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you’re always vulnerable to the weather and time.

I was always going to be a dancer – I drifted into acting.

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

I go on giving interviews because I’ve been brought up to support the projects I’m involved in. When you’ve enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

If people think I look good, it’s the make-up.

The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.

I don’t buy the tabloids, but you’re surrounded by it all and people tell you things they’ve read. I’d be sitting on a train looking over someone’s shoulder and thinking: That’s familiar… oh my God, it’s me.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don’t come along very often.

I’m not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all, I’ve never had a husband.

In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I’ve got the time.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That’s the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You’re not living in their pocket.

The biggest privilege I’ve had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can’t be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can’t speak a word of it now.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I’ve just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone’s 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

I’m one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I’m waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor’s shoulders.

I couldn’t imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

Everything is about class in England, whether it’s upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

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.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don’t find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

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.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

I don’t regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life’s full.

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn’t want to advertise make-up. I didn’t want to be seen as a sex symbol.

I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren’t just about eroticism and sexuality.

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.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there’s nothing you can do about it.

I didn’t choose to be an actress.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

Everyone has class, one class or another.

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.

I’ve never been married and I’ve no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.