Sally Phillips Quotes

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

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.

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.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

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.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

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.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

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.

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.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

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.

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

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.

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

I don't get star-struck at all.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

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.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

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.