Quote

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.

Francesca Annis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francesca Annis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Men
Older
Think
Europe
Thinking
Wants
Like
Everyone
America
Revere
Women
Grown
Look
Thank
Looks
Admire

More quotes by Francesca Annis

Image
I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
Francesca Annis
Image
Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often.
Francesca Annis
Image
It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.
Francesca Annis
Image
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
Image
I never pursued being 'famous.'
Francesca Annis
Image
Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
Francesca Annis
Image
My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
Francesca Annis
Image
I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
Francesca Annis
Image
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
Francesca Annis
Image
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Francesca Annis
Image
I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
Francesca Annis
Image
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
Francesca Annis
Image
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis
Image
I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Francesca Annis
Image
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
Image
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.
Francesca Annis
Image
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.
Francesca Annis
Image
I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.
Francesca Annis
Image
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
Francesca Annis
Image
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.
Francesca Annis