Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
- Francesca Annis Quote

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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 Quote

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

I'm the same weight now as I've always been-even before having children-but I have to say there's been a redistribution of the flesh!
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote

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.
- Francesca Annis Quote