Anne Reid Quotes

Anne Reid

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 28, 1935

I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.

Anne Reid

I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.

Anne Reid

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

Anne Reid

'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'

Anne Reid

I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.

Anne Reid

Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman.

Anne Reid

I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.

Anne Reid

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

Anne Reid

I've accepted stuff even if it's a few lines, because I think it's better to be seen.

Anne Reid

What I really want is an Oscar.

Anne Reid

Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.

Anne Reid

In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.

Anne Reid

You don't feel old when you get old.

Anne Reid

I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.

Anne Reid

I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

Anne Reid

My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!

Anne Reid

The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse.

Anne Reid

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

Anne Reid

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

Anne Reid

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

Anne Reid