Anne Reid Lone Quotes

Anne Reid Lone Quotese

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

— Anne Reid

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

— Anne Reid

Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.

— Anne Reid

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.

— Anne Reid

Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.

— Anne Reid

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

— Anne Reid

I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.

— Anne Reid

I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.

— Anne Reid

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

— Anne Reid

'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'

— 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.'

— Anne Reid

I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't.

— Anne Reid

I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.

— Anne Reid

Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman.

— Anne Reid

I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.

— Anne Reid

I'm not homophobic. I mean, who cares? You know the state of the world, and you're only here for about 70, 80, years, so why do people worry about somebody's sex life? It's bonkers, really.

— Anne Reid

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

— Anne Reid

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

— Anne Reid

What I really want is an Oscar.

— Anne Reid

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.

— Anne Reid

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

— Anne Reid

Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.

— Anne Reid

Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.

— Anne Reid

In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.

— Anne Reid

You don't feel old when you get old.

— Anne Reid

I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.

— Anne Reid

I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

— Anne Reid

My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!

— Anne Reid

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

— Anne Reid

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

— Anne Reid

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