English - Actress | May 28, 1935 -
I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.
Anne Reid
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Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
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My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!
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My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
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I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.
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Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.
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I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
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The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse.
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I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
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You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?
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Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.
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I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.
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