Jennifer Saunders Quotes

• People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Thinking, People, Sensitive

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Coffee, Drink, Beans

  "Absolutely Fabulous (Fashion)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1992-2012.

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• In the "Absolutely Fabulous" show, it's a fairly dysfunctional family, but they're not women who are constantly in search of a man. They don't live conventionally, they don't live in a conventional heterosexual relationship. Edina wishes all her children were gay, because as far as she's concerned it's the most glamorous most interesting thing to be. I think it's about bucking convention, really, and living life without apologizing.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Children, Live Life, Gay

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Men, Ideas, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think TV companies don't take as many risks any more, it's a bit more prescriptive. There are more channels but there seems to be actually less main network channel comedy. You can't offend people as easily, people take things very seriously now. I think that's down to social media though because people can have little tribes of offence.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Thinking, People, Risk

  Source: www.libertylondon.com

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• I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mother, Book, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The Women of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie on Killing Kate Moss and Wooing Jon Hamm". Interview with Anna Silman, www.thecut.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Giving Up, Writing, Office

  "What are you looking at?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2004.

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• Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Tvs, World, Just Being

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don't have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn't fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mean, Thinking, Shoes

  Source: nymag.com

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• It makes me a bit sad that, if anything, that people seem to want to go back to an old model of normality, and sitcoms seem to want to be about ordinary families and things that aren't very interesting. I just think it's a bit sad. It's a shame that life is still depicted in a very straight way.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• The weird thing about all the drag queen Patsys and Eddies from "Absolutely Fabulous" is they are so beautiful, and so tall, and so slim that it sort of puts us to shame.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Beautiful, Fabulous, Shame

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Jobs, Grieving, Nurse

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Smile, Wall, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Home, Gardening, Relax

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Lucky, Roles, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Games, Scary, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Faces, Firsts, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Support, Flaws, Reason

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Integrity, Character, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lacroix has been fantastic. He's very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that's a good thing.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Nice, Thinking, Fantastic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Crush, Men, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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