Anna Friel Professions : Actress Born : July 12, 1976 Browse All Authors Top 41 quotes by Anna Friel I want more children but for the next three years I want to act. Anna Friel three children years 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 actresses people looks I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size. Anna Friel lovely healthy baby 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 oil beautiful meaningful I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older. Anna Friel get-better worry children In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny. Anna Friel pushing hollywood girl When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before. Anna Friel done expectations firsts I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best. Anna Friel differences men years I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it! Anna Friel vanity toilets actors When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it. Anna Friel bigs actors enough Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?' Anna Friel fake praying looks But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise. Anna Friel carbs ask-me bizarre Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them. Anna Friel important vegetables home There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry. Anna Friel fats hungry machines 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 day myself me life 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 back you succeed work 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 place great time baby For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue. Anna Friel go you single dialogue David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience. Anna Friel much more experience years Similar Authors Beatrice Lillie actress Adepero Oduye actress Adrienne Barbeau actress Bindu actress Alexandra Breckenridge actress Bojana Novakovic actress All Authors