The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
Francesca Annis
Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Having children with someone is the real bond.
I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
I have got a few misters interested but nobody special these days.
I'm an actress, not a pinup.
Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
I turned down a lot of films.
It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.
I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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.
I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
I am pretty self-indulgent.
I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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.
I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
I didn't choose to be an actress.
I do find acting cathartic.
I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.
I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.
I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
