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I am a rubbish flirt.
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.
I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?
It was my father who taught me to value myself.
People need to learn to take everyone as they are.
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?
I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.
I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.
I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.
I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.
The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.
I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.
The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.
I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.
I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.
I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.
Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman
Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.
That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.
We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?
My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.
Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.