Francesca Annis Quotes

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Francesca Annis

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 14, 1944

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.

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

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I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

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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.

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

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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

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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.

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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

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

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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.

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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.

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My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

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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.

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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.

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I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

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I am pretty self-indulgent.

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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.

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