A biography for Anne Reidhasn’t been written yet.
“My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.”
“You don't feel old when you get old.”
“I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'”
“You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?”
“The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.”
“My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!”
“I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.”
“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.”
“Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.”
“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.”
“Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.”
“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.”
“I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.”
“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.”
“If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.”
“What I really want is an Oscar.”
“I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.”
“I'm terribly happy at the moment - someone up there must be looking out for me.”
“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.”
“I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't.”