Francesca Annis Quotes

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

I don't like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.

I never go public with my personal life.

I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I'm share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

There's nothing anybody who watches my videos doesn't know about me, unless it's something genuinely sacred and private to me.