56 Quotes by Anne Reid

I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.

We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.

Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation.

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.

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

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.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

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.