A biography for Anita Dobsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I was appearing on 'Top of the Pops' when I was in my mid-thirties or something. It was fantastic! But it was the weirdest thing, I'll admit. Was I me? Was I Angie Watts? Was I me as Angie? I didn't have a clue, but I was having enormous fun all the same.”
“I knew of Queen, and I knew of Freddie, but I didn't know who the rest of the band were. I became friends with Freddie first; then I got to know the others.”
“My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.”
“Usually, I'm asleep by midnight.”
“For me, to be on television and not be afraid of making a mistake is freeing.”
“When I was a kid, I used to watch all those Sunday afternoon matinees featuring all the Hollywood greats.”
“I first got engaged when I was 19, but I just knew there was more of life out there for me. I called it off six weeks before the wedding. I felt terribly guilty because he was such a nice boy, and I was in love with him. But it was the wrong time.”
“We learn by misfortune.”
“Wonderful things happened to me - I met my husband, I got invited to previews and premieres, I was asked to do fashion shoots and front covers of magazines. You've just got to embrace it and do the best you can.”
“My father was a dress cutter, and my mother was a tailoress, so I was brought up to appreciate a good frock.”
“I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.”
“To be playing Joan Crawford is as good as it gets.”
“I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.”
“I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.”
“I love to chit-chat and used to be the first to arrive at a party and the last to leave.”
“To make a marriage work, you have to want to. If you want to stay with that person, you will. It's simple.”
“When I walked away from my role as Angie in 'Eastenders' all those years ago, it was a huge risk, but I always had this great desire to do so many things.”
“I'd sue the bottom off my husband if he dared to put me in one of his films, and he knows that.”
“People were following me home in cars, singing outside my window at my flat. I couldn't go to pubs or supermarkets or walk down the street. It was bizarre, but that was my life.”
“You turn down work you feel you've already done.”