Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Dawn French
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British comedian Dawn French.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.
I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.
It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.
I am a rubbish flirt.
My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.
The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.
I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.
Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.
Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything.
I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.
Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.
I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.
Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?
I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.
I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?
That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.
I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.
I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.
I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.
If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.
Im constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, Well, this is bloody weird, you can get through everything.
There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.
What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.
You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'
Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman
People need to learn to take everyone as they are.
Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
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