Anne Reid Quotes

Anne Reid

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 28, 1935

I like my own company.

Anne Reid

We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.

Anne Reid

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

Anne Reid

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

Anne Reid

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

Anne Reid

I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.

Anne Reid

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

Anne Reid

Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.

Anne Reid

I'm not homophobic. I mean, who cares? You know the state of the world, and you're only here for about 70, 80, years, so why do people worry about somebody's sex life? It's bonkers, really.

Anne Reid

My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation.

Anne Reid

Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.

Anne Reid

Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.

Anne Reid

My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.

Anne Reid

I tell myself things will be different in a few years' time, but this is the most wonderful, golden time for me. I'm basking in the success of 'Tango', really loving it.

Anne Reid

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

Anne Reid

Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.

Anne Reid

I'm more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.

Anne Reid

I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't.

Anne Reid

I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'

Anne Reid

Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

Anne Reid