Francesca Annis

I'm an actress, not a pinup.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.