64 Quotes by Felicity Kendal

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.