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" I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic. "

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" 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. "

Francesca Annis

Doing

Listening

You

" 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

" My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time. "

" 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. "

" As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. "

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

" When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer. "

" 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. "

" I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. "

" I didn't choose to be an actress. "

Francesca Annis

Actress

Choose

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

" I'm an actress, not a pinup. "

Francesca Annis

Actress

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

" I am pretty self-indulgent. "

Francesca Annis

Pretty

Self-Indulgent

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Having children with someone is the real bond. "

" You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities. "

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

" So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so. "

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

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

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

Francesca Annis

Looks

People

" 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 like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party. "

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

" I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. "

" 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. "