Dawn French Quotes

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me.

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 watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.

I was so blue that I felt I'd turned black inside.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.

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 am a rubbish flirt.

I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

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.

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 know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

Get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding ...

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.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

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?

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.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

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.

I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

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.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

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.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

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.

People need to learn to take everyone as they are.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia.

The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?