Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Ruth Jones - Page 2

I applied to only one drama school - if I didn't get in, I would give up the whole notion. That's how much of a chance I was giving myself.

Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.

If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother. I'd have looked like a little old lady who went for a shampoo and set every week. But it's funny - when you get to your 50s it's not like that at all because apart from a few aches and pains, I feel like I'm in my 30s.

I love 'Armstrong & Miller.'

I enjoy it when characters love each other. It's more interesting, actually - it's less predictable.

I'd like to visit the Faroe Islands and at some point take a boat trip along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland.

I adored 'The Young Ones,' then I grew into 'French and Saunders' and Victoria Wood.

I grew up in the seaside town of Porthcawl in South Wales, the third eldest of four children. We weren't overly bookworm-ish but I found the library magical - and I thought librarians earned their wages from book fines!

I can't be bothered to put make-up on - I certainly don't wear it day to day.

I wouldn't go out of my way to go to a big celebrity bash. You have to make an effort to dress up and I'm a bit lazy really.

I think it is easier to put yourself down before anyone else does. Or to laugh at yourself before anyone else does.

I really love 'The Windsors' - and I hope the royal family love it, too.

The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day - when I was eight.

I don't think anyone really has a clue what they are doing in their 20s and, in a lot of cases, their 30s.

I was brought up in Porthcawl and I enjoy going back there.

Lavatorial humour is just not my cup of tea. But, having said that, I'm really of the mind that comedy is so subjective and whatever makes you laugh makes you laugh. If it doesn't make you laugh, don't watch it.

All my life I've had this belief that other people are better than me.

Every day you read these awful stories in the papers that make you want to weep. You think, 'Why has this happened?' But at the same, people can also be lovely to each other.

I can't do bleak, I always prefer to focus on the positive.

I have been very fortunate to play parts that have not been just, 'Oh, you need a fat person to play this part.' It's been a secondary thing or we made a feature of it.

I've probably been guilty of assuming people from by-gone generations were stuffy, two dimensional and a bit dull. But my trip on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' has proved the opposite to be true.

Young people need a boosting up really, a bit more encouraging and less looking down on them.

The characters in 'Gavin & Stacey' do like each other.

At a personal level, I rather like it if you can create characters and storylines that don't have to rely on being crude and swearing.

There were times when the first thing we'd talk about in the morning was 'Stella,' and the last thing we'd talk about at night was 'Stella.'

I think drama in schools shouldn't be about, 'Let's put 'Annie' on this year' - not that there's anything wrong with that - but it's a good way of getting kids to interact, and it can be a good communication tool.

Fleabag' is genius: there's something so brave about a character voicing what we're all thinking but are too embarrassed to say.

I don't want to make generalisations here, but I think that most women and maybe men are not comfortable with being overweight. It's a tricky issue.

I like pampering, relaxation and somewhere comfortable to read on holiday. I consume books when I'm away because it's the only time I get to read for pleasure. Perhaps that makes me a beach vulture.

The worst experiences I've had are hotels that profess to be four or five star, when evidently they aren't.

We all put on very different faces in public and in private.

I get into a bit of a routine on holiday with buffing and body lotions. After a long day's hard sunbathing, there's nothing better than feeling all shiny and clean.

I just don't do the celebrity hangout thing.

It's a huge compliment to be seen as a dramatic actress and not just a comic actress.

Even when bad things happen, you always want to move forward.

I loved my 40s but my 50s have been even better.

I'm a hugely proud Welsh person. I just love it - it's something very special, being Welsh.

Before 'Gavin & Stacey' I'd won a BBC short-story competition.

I love Cardiff and love living in Cardiff - you don't have paparazzi in Cardif.

I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it.