Quotes from Anne Reid

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.

The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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