Anna Chancellor Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.”

“I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.”

“I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.”

“I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.”

“My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.”

“I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.”

“If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.”

“There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.”

“I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.”

“In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.”