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.

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  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.

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  Height, Problem, Wells

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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.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Feelings

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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.

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  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

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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.

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  Actresses, Punk, Convincing

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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.

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  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.

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  Dad, Drama, School

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• I am best viewed from a distance.

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  Distance

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• My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

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  Brother, Perfect, Big Sister

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

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• I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

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  Heart, Comedy, Surrealism

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• I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.

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  Needs, Attention, Comic

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• I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

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  Writing, Careers, People

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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.

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  Jeans, Smoking, Looks

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• I can't tan naturally.

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  I Can

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

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• I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

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  Reality, Tvs, Folks

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• I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

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  Men, Fiber, Not Sure

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• I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

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  Thinking, Vulgar, Ostentation

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

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

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  Family, One Thing, Disposable

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

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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.

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  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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

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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.

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  Knives, Breakfast, Down And

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• A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

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  Laughter, Fart, Beats

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• For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

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  Dying, Want, Suits

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• I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

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  People, World, Admire

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• Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.

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  Hair, Curls, Want

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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.

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  Nice, Hero, Rate

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