Anna Friel Quotes

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• For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

  Anna Friel

  Kissing, Kiss Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Anna Friel

  Important, Actors, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Anna Friel

  Different, Roles, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

  Anna Friel

  Expectations, Done, Firsts

  "Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel NEVERLAND Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

  Anna Friel

  Dream, Children, Men

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Baby, Taken

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• It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

  Anna Friel

  Careers, Domestic Violence, Important

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• I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it!

  Anna Friel

  Vanity, Actors, Toilets

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Support

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Anna Friel

  Four, Rehearsal, Performances

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Anna Friel

  Children, Years, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

  Anna Friel

  Machines, Hungry, Fats

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Pain, Sleep

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  People, Looks, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

  Anna Friel

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Oil

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• But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.

  Anna Friel

  Bizarre, Carbs, Ask Me

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  Love Life, Games, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  Eye, Islands, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  Girl, Baby, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.

  Anna Friel

  Home, Vegetables, Important

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• 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.

  Anna Friel

  Character, Important, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Anna Friel

  Hiding

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Anna Friel

  Baby, Healthy, Lovely

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.

  Anna Friel

  Men

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• I've never been onstage in my life.

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