Anna Chancellor Quotations

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

When people said schooldays were the best days of your life, I remember thinking: 'Tell me it's not true. This cannot be it.' I don't think my life has ever been that bad again. It hasn't always been easy but at least I have been free.

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.