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I'm aware of my body.
I prefer not to eat food that has a face.
I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.
I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.
Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.
Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.
As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.
I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.
The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.
I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.
I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.
It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.
I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.
That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.
I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.
I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.
I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.
I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.