Anna Friel Quotes

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

When competing a lot and traveling, I have problems with my lower back because I'm always on the plane or sitting. That's something that does bother me from time to time, but I try to stay on top of it.

Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.

I think a lot of women have back problems.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

When I was 20-something, 30, I fell down a flight of stairs and hurt my back. I went to a therapist who said don't get out of bed until you do certain stretches, and I've been doing them ever since. I guess I'm the original yogi.

My last show that I did on Broadway was - I hate to say this, but - 'Cats.' There you go. So I was doing 'Cats' on Broadway, and I injured my back. It was a really tough show.

A lot of wear and tear on my body. I've been blessed not to have too many surgeries.

It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.