Anna Friel Quotes

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
Anna Friel

Mother, Pain, Sleep

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
Anna Friel

Life, Love, Nothing

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
Anna Friel

Education, Happy, Parents

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
Anna Friel

Good, Character, True

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.
Anna Friel

Experience, Senior, David

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.
Anna Friel

Single, Word, Five

For me personally, everything is on a kiss.
Anna Friel

Everything, Kiss, Personally

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.
Anna Friel

Lovely, She, Baby

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
Anna Friel

Money, Start, Making

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.
Anna Friel

Life, Character, Judge

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
Anna Friel

Children, Three, Act

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
Anna Friel

Different, Quite, Chosen

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
Anna Friel

Once, Days, Four

I've never been onstage in my life.
Anna Friel

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.
Anna Friel

Important, Line, Draw

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.
Anna Friel

Learning, Strong, Someone

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
Anna Friel

Act, Second, Either

The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.
Anna Friel

Character, Film, Baby

We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.
Anna Friel

Time, Great, America

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
Anna Friel

Future, Mother, Play

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.
Anna Friel

Work, Hard, America

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.
Anna Friel

Live, Happen, Bored

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Nationality: English

Born: July 12, 1976

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