I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims. – Francesca Annis
I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, Ive just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someones 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in. – Francesca Annis
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. – Francesca Annis
So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so. – Francesca Annis
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but were being fooled, because democracy is not the election. Weve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isnt. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. Its the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. – Gael Garcia Bernal