Jennifer Saunders Quotes
We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
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I was a tomboy.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
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I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.
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We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.
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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
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We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
