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Felicity Kendal
English
Actress
About the author
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Success
#Failure
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Power
#Women
Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Old
#Woman
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Being
#Sense
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.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Now
#Life
#Will
I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Hope
#Mother
#Flirting
I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Relax
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Love
#Women
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Years
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Thought
#Anticipation
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.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#Hair
#Fool
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.
Felicity Kendal,
English
Actress
#People
#Old
#Negative
#Business