Victoria Wood Quotes

#1. I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Jo Brand

#2. I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

Jo Brand

#3. Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Julie Walters

#4. I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

Celia Imrie

#5. Sexual harassment at work ... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Victoria Wood

#6. Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Victoria Wood

#7. Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

Victoria Wood

#8. I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

Victoria Wood

#9. In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

Victoria Wood

#10. Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

Victoria Wood

#11. I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.

Victoria Wood

#12. I remember the feel and smell and taste of him. Heat and wood smoke and sunrise, but no longer. Cal smells like blood, his skin is ice, and I tell myself I don't want to taste him ever again.

Victoria Aveyard

#13. You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

Victoria Wood

#14. Everyone I meet is gay, married or crackers

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#15. Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Victoria Wood

#16. Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party ... If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

Victoria Wood

#17. In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Victoria Wood

#18. If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

Victoria Wood

#19. In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Victoria Wood

#20. Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

Victoria Wood

#21. I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

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#22. I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

Victoria Wood

#23. I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

Victoria Wood

#24. Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.

Victoria Wood

#25. I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Victoria Wood

#26. In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

Victoria Wood

#27. I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

Victoria Wood

#28. People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

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#29. On a train, why do I always end up sitting next to the woman who's eating the individual fruit pie by sucking the filling out through the hole in the middle?

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#30. I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.

Victoria Wood

#31. If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

Victoria Wood

#32. Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Victoria Wood

#33. A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

Victoria Wood

#34. I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

Victoria Wood

#35. My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Victoria Wood

#36. I have been in a youth hostel ... You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

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#37. A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

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#38. I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

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#39. If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

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#40. Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

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#41. My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

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#42. Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

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#43. All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

Victoria Wood