Francesca Annis - Best Quotes

Women

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.

Technology

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

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.

Success

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

Francesca Annis

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

Respect

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Francesca Annis

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Home

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

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.

Health

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.

Francesca Annis

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.

Great

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

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.

Funny

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

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all I've never had a husband.

Fear

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

Francesca Annis

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

Famous

I never pursued being 'famous.'

Francesca Annis

I never pursued being 'famous.'

Famous

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

Francesca Annis

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

Family

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Author: Francesca Annis

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 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.

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

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

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.

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'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.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all I've never had a husband.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

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

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.