Sally Phillips Quotes
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.
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I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.