Anna Friel famous quotes

03-26-2025

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

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

#Important #Actors #Lines
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
I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.
-- Anna Friel

#Men
It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.
-- Anna Friel

#Careers #Domestic Violence #Important
These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
-- Anna Friel

#Giving #Domestic Violence #Needs
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

#Character #Important #Stories
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

#Girl #Baby #Character
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

#Eye #Islands #Years
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

#Mother #Baby #Taken
I've never been onstage in my life.
-- Anna Friel
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

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

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

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

#Different #Roles #Way
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
-- Anna Friel

#Children #Years #Three
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

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

#Baby #Healthy #Lovely
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

#Love Life #Games #Play
If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
-- Anna Friel

#Beautiful #Meaningful #Oil

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