Sally Phillips Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Dad, Moving, House

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

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  Children, Topshop, Jewelry

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

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  Winter, Spiders, Tights

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

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  Writing, Absurd, Situation

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• 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.

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  Comfort, Nervous, Ifs

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• As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

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  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Insecure, Dvds, Language

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• 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.

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  Past, Hot, Topics

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

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  Keystones, Studios, Has Beens

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

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  Feelings, Botox, Faces

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Funny Friend, Monkeys, Pubs

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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

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  Cutting, Magazines, Pairs

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

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  Government, Dull, Narnia

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

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  Boys, Three, Testosterone

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• 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.

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  Hair, Blonde, Red

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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

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  Kids, Faults, Blind

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• I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

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  Lying, Google, Way

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

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  Want, Married, Matriarchs

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

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  Writing, Comedian, Casts

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

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  Crush, Twists, Firsts

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• I don't get star-struck at all.

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  Stars

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• 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.

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  Christian, Thinking, Who I Am

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• 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?'

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  Scripts, Tvs, Branding

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