Top 75 Anna Quotes

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

I texted one of the writers I said, ‘I have this crazy idea, I think I have to play Fran Lebowitz on Update.’ The next day, Anna Drezen, our head writer, texted me, ‘Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on Update.’

I love ‘Anna Karenina.’ It’s in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.

When people say to me, ‘You’re like the Anna Kournikova who wins,’ I definitely take it as a compliment, because she’s quite gorgeous.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don’t want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I’m not a spokeswoman for Anna.

It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who have died are a result of drugs. It is always sad when such a bright light goes out.

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.

For clothes, I like Anna on Regent’s Park Road. Anna Park, who owns it, has an amazing eye for fresh, exciting clothes. I also love Arrogant Cat on Kensington Church Street. Space NK on Duke of York Square for exciting potions. I think I stretch the term ‘tester’ way beyond its boundaries.

‘The September Issue’ is really a film about Anna Wintour’s relationship with long time ‘Vogue’ Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.

The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the ‘Vogue’ Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.

Right now we’re in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

I’m not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

I’d been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

Before Anna, I’d had a few relationships and I’m glad I’ve been around a bit. I know where it’s gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for.

Anna Wintour doesn’t deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

I first thought about doing a project about Anna Wintour and ‘Vogue’ when I read an article in ‘New York Magazine’ about the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball, the annual fundraising gala that Anna oversees. It created such a fascinating portrait that I couldn’t help but be compelled.

When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of ‘Let’s Go Europe’ in one hand, ‘Anna Karenina’ in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.

When I met with Anna Chancellor, I knew she was a kindred spirit. We got one another.

I think whenever people talk about the ‘Anna Sui woman,’ they’re talking about someone that’s probably kind of more downtown, and there’s always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

There’s this joke that Anna Drezen wrote for Melissa Villasenor, where Melissa plays every teen-girl murder suspect on Law & Order.’ And there’s this joke in there that is like, We stabbed her as a joke, but she took it the wrong way and started bleeding!’

As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.

I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called ‘vegetarian,’ experience of migration. It involved planes and trains – the actual compartments of passenger trains – and not grueling walking and riding on the roofs of trains.

I always look up to girls like Beyonce or Anna Kournikova. Girls who do something well but also look good. I think every girl loves to feel sexy and, sure, there’s some creeps out there, but I’m putting myself out there. I guess I’m just working with what I have.

Constance Wu is so dedicated, Anna Kendrick is ridiculously funny, and Blake Lively is magnetic.

When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from ‘My Girl.’

I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.

The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That’s been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in ‘American High’ to the soldiers in ‘Military Diaries’ to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep – I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

I went back to Australia to do a show called ‘The Beautiful Lie,’ which is a retelling of ‘Anna Karenina’ in a six-part mini-series – a modern, contemporary version.

Yes, my life has changed in terms of the fame and the success, the number of eye balls on you all the time. I like to believe that it has not changed my ideology, the person that I am. I have people like Anna and my mom, my friends who tell me that.

I’ve made some films that were very much image based: ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘Pan,’ for instance.

The truly great books are always novels: ‘Anna Karenina,’ ‘The Brothers Karamazov,’ ‘The Magic Mountain.’ Just as with ‘Shahnameh,’ I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

Starting in my 20s, I couldn’t wait to look like Anna Magnani or Isabelle Huppert, all these great European actresses – Charlotte Rampling – the cheekbones and the heavy lidded eyes and the dark circles under the eyes, you know. So around 42/44, I started getting a little character on my face, and I was so glad.

Let’s not kid ourselves. You pick up ‘The Washington Post’ and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; ‘serious journalists’ covered Anna Nicole Smith.

‘Anna Nicole’ came from Guess Jeans; Paul Marciano and me and one of his friends, we were sitting around coming up with a stage name, and that’s where that came from.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I’m not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

I watched some shows like ‘The Simple Life’ and ‘The Anna Nicole Smith Show,’ but I hadn’t really watched ‘The Bachelor’ until I was cast on ‘UnReal.’

Tolstoy didn’t know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In ‘Anna Karenina,’ nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it.

I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.

I must have read three-quarters of ‘Anna Karenina’ on my phone. Which might be a record.

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting.

Heath Ledger’s recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith’s not so much.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

We didn’t have a script, but with Jean-Luc we didn’t really need one. It was like an understanding between us. He would say, ‘Anna, a little bit quicker or a little bit slower.’ That was all. We didn’t do a lot of retakes. With some other actors I know he would do a lot of retakes, but not with me.

I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. ‘Anna Karenina’ was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

Wishing there were more children’s books like ‘The Snowy Day’ is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like ‘Anna Karenina.’ There are only so many masterpieces out there.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Legends have composed music for Ambareesh anna’s films during his illustrious career and it is a great honor to be able to do it for him in ‘Ambi Ning Vysaitho,’ as it is his film and doesn’t just have him as a supporting actor.