Arabella Weir Quotes
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I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.
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When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
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My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
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The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
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Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
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I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
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I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'
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When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
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If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.
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The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
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My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
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I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.
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I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.
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If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
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My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.
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Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
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As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?
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There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
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Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
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Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.
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If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
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I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
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I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.
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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
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If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.
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Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.
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With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
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Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
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Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?
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If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
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