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" The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband. "
Francesca Annis
Husband
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Own
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret. "
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" I do find acting cathartic. "
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" I have got a few misters interested but nobody special these days. "
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" Everyone has class, one class or another. "
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" Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while! "
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Always
Away
" So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so. "
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Way
" Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere. "
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Famous
" You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself. "
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Stop
Doing
You
" I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth. "
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Afraid
Arrogance
People
" 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. "
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Stop
" Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel. "
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You
Look
Eat
" It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time. "
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Moving
Time
Different
" An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. "
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Defensive
Become
You
" Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. "
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Everything
Become
You
" From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now. "
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Seven
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Now
" Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. "
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Respect
" 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. "
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Want
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" I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently. "
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Yoga
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" Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often. "
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" I didn't choose to be an actress. "
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Actress
Choose
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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