Francesca Annis

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't read more

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself read more

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which read more

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.