27 Quotes by Anna Chancellor

I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.