I look at being an actress as being like... by Anna Friel | We Heart Quotes

People Being Film Money Television

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

Other quotes by Anna Friel

Mother Film

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

Work

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

Act Years Want

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

- Anna Friel

Baby Right

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

- Anna Friel

Worth Nothing Life People

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

Word

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

- Anna Friel

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