Sally Phillips Quotes

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

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

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

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

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?'

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.

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 don't get star-struck at all.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

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

I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

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.

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

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

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

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.

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.

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.

Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.

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

I dont 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.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

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