Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Mel Giedroyc - Page 2

Of course there's pressure on you whatever timeslot you're doing, but I think there's more pressure on you as you go into the evening and I think being tucked away in a nice teatime arena feels quite nice.

At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn't ever see, they were so posh. They went to each other's rooms and, at weekends, each other's estates. I preferred to be with the weirdo bunch of raggle-taggle thesps.

For me, Christmas was always about presents. As a child, we each had an allotted place in the sitting room for the ceremonial unwrapping and mine was perched beside the telly on a Moroccan pouffe. We would watch our mum with bated breath as she divided up the gifts.

My kids both had Catholic junior school education, which I'm really glad for - it taught them how to be compassionate, how to be kind.

I met Sue Perkins at the Footlights, where she brought the house down at the auditions.

People can now get to see anything they want, in any shape or form, anywhere, on laptop, iPad or 'phone. What's not controllable, though, is the live element. So there's still a real thrill for TV viewers in watching actors pulling it all together and performing live, and a real challenge for the actors.

My problem with present buying is usually lack of time. Not because I'm super-busy, I'm just super-lazy. I leave everything to the last minute and end up running up and down the high street on Christmas Eve like a crazed baboon.

I'm really proud of 'The Gift.' There are stories we can all relate to - a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.

There is something a bit volatile about hosting a big live show like 'Eurovision.' Anything could literally happen.

Believe me, you don't want to play to an audience of seven in a village hall in Cumbernauld.

I've never seen 'Light Lunch' - only clips. But I do remember from those clips that there was a lot of bounding about and energy and I think that's probably slightly lessened over the years.

Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum had four children plus all of the extended family and she not only had to feed us all but she bought presents for everyone, too.

At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers' eye and being bullied for it.

I know things can go pear-shaped.

I can't take UKIP seriously. I should, I must, it's our duty to take them seriously, because they're coming out with some really heinous old crap about immigration.

I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.

I feel very lucky. 'Bake Off' has opened more doors for me. I was so delighted to get the job.

This business is fickle. You have very good patches and less good patches, but you learn to ride them out. As long as you don't take yourself too seriously, you'll be fine. When you lose sight of that, you're in trouble.

I don't want to take things for granted.

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

I take each thing as it comes and try and give it 110 per cent - it's just a blessing to be able to do different things.

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

We have our detractors. If we didn't, that would be weird. That would make me feel, 'Oh God, we must be really bland.' You have to have detractors.

I would not describe myself as the best Catholic - I'm a bit of a cherry-picker. I like the community of it.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

It was an honour to be asked to do 'The Gift.' The producers took a risk asking me because, coming from a comedy background, I am not known for this kind of highly-charged, emotional show.

The older I get, as well, bloody hell - time's running out. I just feel, jeez, there's so much to do. I'm not going to try to change the planet but make changes just in a small way.

Look at someone like Mary Berry, for God's sake, that woman is just such an inspiration... what's to say you can't do stuff for years and years and years?

Noel Fielding is a friend of mine and I love what he does.

I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.

I had to sit down and promise the kids I would no longer have any spray tans. My husband started sending me the carrot emoji.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.

Performing on radio is great, you roll up with no makeup in pyjamas and nobody will know.

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

Comedy can become quite addictive actually.

I'm very competitive about puns.

As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.

I've always done stuff on stage, so it feels very natural.