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Anne Reid
English
Actress
Born:
May 28
,
1935
Got
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.
Anne Reid
Memories
Parents
Back
India
Jasmine
Brings
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
Life
Good
Home
People
Old
Good Life
Counting
Wallpaper
Should
Roses
Now
I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
Anne Reid
Cabaret
Write
Over
Stories
Place
Little
Notebooks
'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'
Anne Reid
Time
Good
Long
Fire
Long Time
Took
Catch
Tango
Been
Reviews
America
Getting
I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't.
Anne Reid
Wish
Sweet
Tooth
Very
Sweet Tooth
I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.
Anne Reid
Gun
Every
Weapon
Make
Planet
Bomb
Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.
Anne Reid
You
Confidence
Trust
People
Destroyed
Out
Find
Your
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
Life
You
People
World
Sex
Somebody
Cares
State
Worry
About
Only
Know
Years
Mean
Really
Who
Who Cares
Why
Homophobic
Here
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
Sometimes
Too Much
Hopeless
Too
Kitchen
Schedule
Absolutely
Domesticated
Very
Cram
Afraid
Much
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
Time
Great
Me
You
Disappointment
Sadness
Old
First
Big
Think
Too
Faults
One Time
See
Like
Remotely
Look
Because
Always
Julie
Done
Realise
Might
Then
Your
Used
Why
Fat
Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.
Anne Reid
Life
You
Nice
Ease
Gives
Remarkable
Knack
Talent
Very
Just
Nice Life
Thing
Inner
Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
Anne Reid
Matter
Will
Big
Everybody
Bennett
How
Get
Want
Script
Then
Alan
In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.
Anne Reid
Day
You
People
Films
Kind
Some
About
Weight
Got
Were
Mature
I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.
Anne Reid
Thought
Live
Difficult
Think
Married
Never
Getting
Quite
Getting Married
Again
I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.
Anne Reid
First
Married
First Place
Got
Surprised
Quite
Place
Ever
Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
Anne Reid
Christmas
Day
Great
Cooking
Remember
School
Christmas Day
Parents
Big
Before
Few
Young
Abroad
Sack
Had
Goose
Always
Been
Itself
Very
Boarding
Boarding School
Mummy
Presents
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
Anne Reid
Family
Father
Church
Ministers
Lawyers
He
Tales
Said
Were
His
Scotland
Full
Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.
Anne Reid
Together
Would
John
About
Feel
Know
Well
Got
Reid
Now
I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
Anne Reid
Work
Would
Would-Be
Except
Cabaret
Know
Parts
Doing
Tango
Much
Acting
Now
The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse.
Anne Reid
Life
Day
My Life
Changed
See
London
Singer
July
American
Barbara
Warehouse
Cook
Actress
You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?
Anne Reid
Life
You
Throw
Never
Know
Going
Really
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.
Anne Reid
Life
Love
You
Rest
Clever
Fall
Think
About
Idea
Person
Fantasy
Then
Your
I'm more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.
Anne Reid
Demanding
Become
Older
Temperamental
More
Got
For the first part of my career, I did what I was told, and I wasn't getting anywhere. I'd get in such a state when I was asked to do something, and it didn't feel right, and I'd end up feeling that I wasn't very good.
Anne Reid
Good
First
Feeling
State
Something
Part
Feel
End
Up
Very
Get
Did
Getting
Anywhere
Asked
Right
Career
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
Me
Old
Would
Laurence
Laurence Olivier
Liked
Judi Dench
Got
Go
Dench
Sir
Roles
Ask
Play
I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.
Anne Reid
You
People
Amazing
Sick
Say
Hit
Them
Start
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