Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Sue Perkins
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English comedian Sue Perkins.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.
It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.
I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.
I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.
I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.
You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.
A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.
It's always a treat for me to go to the British Library.
The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can't see how bad things are getting.
I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.
It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself - and I would miss the chance to seize it.
I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.
I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.
I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.
I'd really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!
I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.
My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.
I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.
'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'
Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.
Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.
I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.
I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.
Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.
Long hair doesn't look good on me because my hair is fine.
With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.
I'd love to see Kate Bush, full stop.
I was an international krumper at one time. I can't talk about it, really, because when you've lived for krump like I have, when you get a bit older and you move away from it, it's hard.
Because I'm busy, I don't sit down to a lot of big formal meals - unless I've got mates round, in which case I'll cook something.
By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if you had an entirely gay comedy.
In Hebrew, the name Susan means 'graceful lily' - in Khmer, it means 'girl with the bad puns,' and in ancient Aztec, it translates as 'she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.'
Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of my life.
I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.
I don't really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it's someone's birthday, I'll pretend I like red wine for about three sips.
Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.
My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.
Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant.
We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person - that's your tribe.
Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.
I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.
I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.
For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.
I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.
The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.
I usually like 'The Guardian' and its journalistic bent, but sometimes 'The Independent.' And if I'm being totally honest, some weekends I'll have a 'News of the Screws' or a 'Sunday Spurt.' You need high and lowbrow.
If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.
To those who say: 'Why pay for a gym when the outdoors is free?' I say this. In nature, there are no medicine balls. You can lie on an outsized gourd doing sit-ups, but in reality, outsized gourds are hard to come by unless you live in a farmers' market.
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.
I'm desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I'd like to say to her, really calmly. I'd just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the 'her' that she pretends to be on TV with the 'her' she is as a real person.
I don't look great. I'm a bit ramshackle.
I came to music very young.
I like '24.' But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let yourself go in that one day; you just eat crisps and wander around madly ranting.
You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.
I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.
My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.
I don't have it in my personality to be frightened of things.
I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.
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