Anna Friel English Quotations

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.

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

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

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

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.

Last month I spent six months in New York working with Barry Levinson but I didn't want to stay there, I could have but I wanted to come home.

I've never been to a live match but now having made this film I'm going to - I'm going to Real Madrid so it'll be done with a bang!

I've only just started to think that I can make a career out of this. At the end of my time in Brookside, I wondered if I'd ever work again.

It's placing your words carefully, and keeping everything nice, kind of hidden behind a smile. People don't want to see your insecurities here.

I also like the fact that the character isn't a typical footballer's wife, she doesn't need the bling and being at the forefront of everything.