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Francesca Annis has said she thinks the thirst for success is an "American import". The actress, who starred in Roman Polanski's Macbeth and is about to tread the boards with Catherine Tate in Under The Blue Sky, told The Times she is happier not working. "I like not working. [Success and happiness are] an American import; really you just muddle through - like the Cavafy poem, Ithaca, you know: the journey of life is the thing, not the arriving," she is reported to have said. She added that she was happier doing theatre now because of the lack of interesting parts for older women in television. "The script arrives and you want to love it but then it's dire and you can't do it," she reportedly said. Francesca, who split up with her partner of ten years Ralph Fiennes in 2006, has now moved back to the area of Kensington she... [read full story]
