Quotes from Anne Reid

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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