Anne Reid Quotes

Anne Reid

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 28, 1935

I think people can't believe I can still walk and talk and get on the stage without assistance.

Anne Reid

For the first part of my career, I did what I was told, and I wasn't getting anywhere. I'd get in such a state when I was asked to do something, and it didn't feel right, and I'd end up feeling that I wasn't very good.

Anne Reid

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

Anne Reid

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

Anne Reid

I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.

Anne Reid

I'm past it now - love. I can't imagine it happening again.

Anne Reid

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

Anne Reid

You can wear yourself out by saying yes to things you don't want to do, and nobody really minds if you say no. I enjoy my own company. I'm never at a loss for things to do.

Anne Reid

I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.

Anne Reid

I did go to public school, but that's only because my parents were abroad. As a matter of fact, I think that's helped my work. I can go from Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' to playing Barbara Cartland, from 'Coronation Street' to playing Celia in Last 'Tango'.

Anne Reid

My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.

Anne Reid

I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.

Anne Reid

I'm terribly happy at the moment - someone up there must be looking out for me.

Anne Reid

I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.

Anne Reid

The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

Anne Reid