Felicity Kendal Quotes

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I’m 70, like my mother did.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it’s kinder not to. I’m deeply into my 50s now.

I don’t take money seriously, so I can’t keep any.

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare’s plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren’t telling the truth – their lips move.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

I’m sure people in the business have said: She’s too old for that part. I don’t hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.