Top 34 Quotes & Sayings by Ruby Wax

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Ruby Wax is an American-British actress, comedian, writer, television personality, and mental-health campaigner. A classically-trained actress, Wax was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for five years and co-starred on the ITV sitcom Girls on Top (1985–1986). She came to prominence as a comic interviewer, playing up to British perceptions of the strident American style, on television shows including The Full Wax (1991–1994), Ruby Wax Meets... (1994–1998), Ruby (1997–2000), and The Ruby Wax Show (2002). She was a script editor for the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), also appearing in two episodes.

American - Comedian | Born: April 19, 1953

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I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Ruby Wax

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

Ruby Wax

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

Ruby Wax

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Ruby Wax

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

Ruby Wax

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

Ruby Wax

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Ruby Wax

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Ruby Wax

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

Ruby Wax

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Ruby Wax

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

Ruby Wax

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Ruby Wax

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Ruby Wax

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Ruby Wax

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Ruby Wax

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

Ruby Wax

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

Ruby Wax

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

Ruby Wax

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Ruby Wax

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Ruby Wax

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

Ruby Wax

You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.

Ruby Wax

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

Ruby Wax

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

Ruby Wax

What once made you safe now drives you insane.

Ruby Wax

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

Ruby Wax

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

Ruby Wax

My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

Ruby Wax

My whole career has been an act of revenge.

Ruby Wax

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

Ruby Wax

'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!

Ruby Wax

I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

Ruby Wax

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Ruby Wax

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

Ruby Wax

Top 34 Quotes & Sayings by Ruby Wax

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