Francesca Annis

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.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

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 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.