Francesca Annis

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself read more

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't read more

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

Having children with someone is the real bond.