Anna Chancellor Quotes

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

I can't go more than 72 hours without shopping, but I don't think I'm excessive.

It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.

I actually hate shopping.

I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

I shop more than most women.

I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.

There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

I have a bag and shoe addiction. If I were a doctor or a lawyer, I'd still have it.

Because I love shopping, my house is overflowing with clothes. Most of them were bought by myself.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

I used to literally spend every dime I had on clothes, shoes and getting fresh.