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

- Anne Reid

Shy, Away, Tend, Uptight

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.

- Anne Reid

Think, Away, Tries, Adapting

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

Everybody, Weeks, Having, Two Weeks

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.

- Anne Reid

Father, Newspaper, Very, Fixed

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

- Anne Reid

More, Older, Demanding, Temperamental

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

- Anne Reid

Love, Thought, Lovely, Blow

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

- Anne Reid

Treat, Like, Very, Old Lady

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

- Anne Reid

Big, How, Everybody, Alan

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

- Anne Reid

Over, Stories, I Write, Notebooks

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

Old, Counting, Wallpaper, Roses

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

- Anne Reid

Play, Dench, Laurence, None

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

Bed, Used, I Think, None

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

- Anne Reid

Career, Drama, Sprint, Juvenile

I did go to public school, but that's only because my parents were abroad. As a matter of fact, I think that's helped my work. I can go from Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' to playing Barbara Cartland, from 'Coronation Street' to playing Celia in Last 'Tango'.

- Anne Reid

Fact, I Think, Public School, Wood

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

Too Much, Sometimes, Very, Kitchen

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

- Anne Reid

Thought, Always, Maybe, Bond Girl

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

- Anne Reid

Father, Church, Lawyers, Tales

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

- Anne Reid

Wish, Sweet Tooth, Very, Tooth

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

Voice, Bed, German, Lessons

We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.

- Anne Reid

Kind, Always, Had, Evening

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

- Anne Reid

Memories, Back, Brings, Jasmine

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

Sadness, Big, Why, One Time

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

- Anne Reid

First Place, Ever, Quite, Surprised

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

- Anne Reid

Think, I Think, Accepted, Lines

Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.

- Anne Reid

Feel, I Feel, About, Reid

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.

- Anne Reid

Thinking, Own, Agent, Waking

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

Play, Billy, Turned, Liar

My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation.

- Anne Reid

Generation, Very, Were, Compared

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

- Anne Reid

Proud, Mad, Being, Ancestors

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

Why, Here, About, Who Cares

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