Top 20 Quotes by Anna Chancellor

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

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

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

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.

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

I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.

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