Francesca Annis Quotes

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

I've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

In Hollywood, no one is happy with who they are. When they're young, they want to look older. When they're older, they're getting botox shot in their face to look younger.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.