Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish celebrity Gail Porter.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Gail Porter is a Scottish television personality, former model and actress. She started her television career in children's TV, before branching out into modelling and presenting mainstream TV. In the 1990s, she famously posed nude for FHM, which was projected on to the Houses of Parliament. Later in her career, Porter has been affected by alopecia, a condition which causes hair loss.
What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
Love has no age.
I try to cope with everything through humor.
I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
I don't believe in God.
People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
I'm always weeping at something or other.
I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
Every day I do something that freaks me out.
Bald is the new black!
I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
I like routine.
Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
When you have children, that's your main focus.
I read everything and anything. I love books.
I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
I've always had an addictive nature.
When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
I do tend to overdo everything.
My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.
My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.