Time is irreversible. We always race against it and unfortunately lose the battle. Is that, however, really always the case??? Well, I can assure you it is not.

With me, it is quite contrary. It has particularly have been so for the last 5 weeks, as the time seems to go back. Despite the fact that I’m growing older every day (as we all are) I am physically feeling younger. That applies to my looks as well.

Unusual number of complements, kind words and flirty looks are quite a pleasant thing. They are, by no means, forced but they come straight from the heart. Most surprising is, however, the fact, that an appropriate management of your life you can bring astonishing results both in your career and in your personal life. Thanks to the new diet and managing my time in the evenings during training I feel really great. I feel I have special energy and the will to live. My perception of the world has changed. I have become more open to people....

Lena: In 2003 you have started a foundation Mimo Wszystko whose aim is the help the handicapped. Where did the idea come from?

Anna: There is no simple answer here. It’s a bit complicated. I’m not a type of a business woman. I don’t like to give orders to people, I’d rather befriend them. That’s why I became an actress, because in order to act, one must understand the character one’s playing. What’s more, I’m a public person and I’ve been receiving hundreds of letters. So I know pretty well how lonely and helpless people may be. It is hard just to walk by them. My foundation was not a premeditated idea, but a reaction, a result of a coincidence. A few years ago father Isakowicz-Zaleski, the president of Father Albert Foundation gave me a call. He invited me to his shelter for Mentally Handicapped in Radwanowice to join the jury in a music-theatre festival. I was afraid of this meeting. I never...