56 Quotes by Anne Reid

I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'

I've accepted stuff even if it's a few lines, because I think it's better to be seen.

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.

I'm more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.

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.

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.

My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.

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

I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.