Dawn French Quotes

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  • 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?

  • 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.

    "Dawn French on her amazing weight loss: I never disliked my body but I slimmed to be there for my kid" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2012.
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • I am a rubbish flirt.

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

  • 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.

    "Dawn French opens her heart on the death of her mum and the challenges her family faced" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.
  • When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

  • 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.

  • Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

  • 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.

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

    "Dawn French: 'I decided I'd pretend to be someone very confident'". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.
  • 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 Myth of Universal Beauty" by David Robson, www.bbc.com. June 23, 2015.
  • I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.

    "Dawn French on her amazing weight loss: I never disliked my body but I slimmed to be there for my kid" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2012.
  • The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.

  • 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.

  • In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

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

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • It was my father who taught me to value myself.

  • 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.

    "Super size me". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.
  • Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

  • Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

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

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