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" 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. "

Francesca Annis

God

Looking

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" I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks. "

Francesca Annis

Looks

People

" I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap. "

" I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims. "

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

" 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. "

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

" In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing. "

" My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything. "

Francesca Annis

Always

Parents

" 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. "

" You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. "

" Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. "

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

" 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. "

Francesca Annis

Giving

Working

" 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. "

" My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security. "

" An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. "

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

" Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family. "

" Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private. "

Francesca Annis

Ghetto

Year

" I am pretty self-indulgent. "

Francesca Annis

Pretty

Self-Indulgent

" However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. "

" I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here. "

" I do find acting cathartic. "