Sally Phillips Quotes
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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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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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
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I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.
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A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.