Top 67 Dawn French Sayings
#1. It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Dawn French
#2. The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.
Dawn French
#3. I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
Dawn French
#4. I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.
Dawn French
#5. Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
Dawn French
#6. I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
Dawn French
#7. Get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding ...
Dawn French
#8. I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep all the museums open until dawn. You can go and hang out in Versailles in the middle of the night and watch the sun come up.
Anna Wintour
#9. When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
Dawn French
#10. I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
Dawn French
#11. Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.
Dawn French
#12. I don't know why I feel so crazy ... I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
Dawn French
#14. I was so blue that I felt I'd turned black inside.
Dawn French
#15. It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me.
Dawn French
#16. I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
Dawn French
#17. I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.
Dawn French
#18. I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
Dawn French
#19. It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
Dawn French
#20. Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia.
Dawn French
#21. I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.
Dawn French
#22. I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything.
Dawn French
#23. The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.
Dawn French
#24. I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
Dawn French
#25. I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.
Dawn French
#26. That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.
Dawn French
#27. I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
Dawn French
#28. Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?
Dawn French
#29. I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.
Dawn French
#30. My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
Dawn French
#31. Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.
Dawn French
#32. Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.
Dawn French
#33. Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.
Dawn French
#34. I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.
Dawn French
#35. Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
Dawn French
#36. I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.
Dawn French
#37. The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.
Dawn French
#38. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
Dawn French
#39. I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French
#40. I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
Dawn French
#41. But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight.
Dawn French
#42. What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.
Dawn French
#43. Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
Dawn French
#44. Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.
Dawn French
#45. Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
Dawn French
#46. That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.
Dawn French
#47. I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.
Dawn French
#48. Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
Dawn French
#49. The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
Dawn French
#50. Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#51. I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.
Dawn French
#52. My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.
Dawn French
#53. I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?
Dawn French
#54. We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, "for better or worse", and you didn't see it like that.
Dawn French
#55. Tanks beached at X and Z were to race inland before dawn in a pincer movement to help capture two airfields south of Oran while Operation RESERVIST supposedly secured the port. Infantrymen would also encircle the city, preventing any reinforcements from reaching Oran if the French chose to fight.
Rick Atkinson
#56. I offered her the benefit of my company this New Year's Eve, but informed her that as of midnight I should much like to insist that she refers to me as Master Oscar at all times. For that is whom I am, and I can't stress enough the importance of being Oscar.
Dawn French
#57. Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?
Dawn French
#58. I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
Dawn French
#59. If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.
Dawn French
#60. People need to learn to take everyone as they are.
Dawn French
#61. For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
Dawn French
#62. I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
Dawn French
#63. My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.
Dawn French
#65. I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
Dawn French
#66. We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
Dawn French
#67. Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman
Dawn French
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