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I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.
I'm so in love with David Dimbleby.
I love watching birds of prey and stags.
I don't want my life to just be about me.
I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.
I make no bones about the fact that I'm over 40.
Long hair doesn't look good on me because my hair is fine.
I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.
I don't have it in my personality to be frightened of things.
I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.
I'd really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!
I'd have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.
Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can't say to humans.
I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.
Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
People have tried to glam me up over the years, but it just doesn't work.
I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.
'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'
If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.
Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.
I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.
I think the fact that I am gay is about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.
You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.
When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.
Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.
The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.
We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person - that's your tribe.
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.
You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.
I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.
A good 'Bake Off,' for me, is just about cakes and nice people - and that's a successful show.
My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.
It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.
One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.
With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.
Let's face it: I'm not a looker. I'm a scruff. But I have embraced my scruffiness. We're happy together.
Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.
I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.
Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of my life.
My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.
I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.
I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.
I'm not against embracing my femininity, but I've never bought into the idea that you have to wear a dress to do that.
I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.
I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.
Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.
For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.
I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.