Anna Friel Quotes (30 Quotes)


    I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

    I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

    You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

    I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

    I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.


    Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

    I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

    David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

    I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

    For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

    The pictures came out and everyone was going Oh my God, she only had her baby three days ago and look at her'

    As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

    The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

    I also like the fact that the character isn't a typical footballer's wife, she doesn't need the bling and being at the forefront of everything.

    We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

    It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

    Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

    He has a week of games up in Scotland and we go every year,

    Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

    I think that sort of changed things for me, especially in America, because the cast was really great - Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christian Bale - and people started to think, 'if she's working with them she must be doing well'.

    And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

    Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

    I've never been onstage in my life.

    It's placing your words carefully, and keeping everything nice, kind of hidden behind a smile. People don't want to see your insecurities here.

    For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

    Last month I spent six months in New York working with Barry Levinson but I didn't want to stay there, I could have but I wanted to come home.

    I've only just started to think that I can make a career out of this. At the end of my time in Brookside, I wondered if I'd ever work again.

    Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

    People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

    I've never been to a live match but now having made this film I'm going to - I'm going to Real Madrid so it'll be done with a bang


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