Jenny Eclair Quotes

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• I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

  Jenny Eclair

  Glasses, Situation, Ifs

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• Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

  Jenny Eclair

  Height, Problem, Wells

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• What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

  Jenny Eclair

  Agents, Want, Internet

  "Me and my travels". Interview With Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

  Jenny Eclair

  Mother, Dad, Hair

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

  Jenny Eclair

  Knives, Breakfast, Down And

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• I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

  Jenny Eclair

  Actresses, Punk, Convincing

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• I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

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• I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

  Jenny Eclair

  Fashion, Clothes, Feelings

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• I am best viewed from a distance.

  Jenny Eclair

  Distance

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• My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

  Jenny Eclair

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

  "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

  Jenny Eclair

  Mother, Daughter, Teacher

  "This much I know". Interview With Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

  Jenny Eclair

  Nice, Hero, Rate

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• As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jeans, Smoking, Looks

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• I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

  Jenny Eclair

  Style, Barmaids, Wannabes

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• Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

  Jenny Eclair

  Family, One Thing, Disposable

  "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. Augsut 28, 2009.

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• I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

  Jenny Eclair

  Lying, Naps, Red

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

  Jenny Eclair

  Dad, Drama, School

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• I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

  Jenny Eclair

  Moderation, Lows, Keel

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

  Jenny Eclair

  People, Feelings, Horrible

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• I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Hate, People

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

  Jenny Eclair

  Beach, Track, Bars

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.

  Jenny Eclair

  Emotional, Natural

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• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Cat, Vision

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

  Jenny Eclair

  Years, Berlin, England

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• Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

  Jenny Eclair

  Skin Tone, Fake, Skins

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