Sally Phillips Quotes
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Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
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I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant." That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.
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Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
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I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
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