I used to pray every night: 'Please let me look all right from the front.' I didn't care about real life, but I wanted to look good for theatre audiences - I worried about having a funny nose. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I was this sort of floozy in 'The Rag Trade,' and 'Mr Digby Darling,' and 'Now, Take My Wife' - the titles say it… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
You're never going to get 2,400 people a night for a play. I'm sorry, you really aren't. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I can't think of anybody among the greats who isn't constantly looking at themselves and feeling dissatisfied. You're greedy in this business: always wanting… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
On 'The X Factor,' they deliberately have people on that are awful just to laugh at them. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
There isn't a carer in the world who doesn't say, 'I hate it. My life is being ruined. I didn't see my life like… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I was struck during the Brexit debate by how little discussion there was about the origins of the concept of a united Europe. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I have never met anybody who can change their point of view as easily as me. It's profoundly embarrassing. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I cannot pass by seeing a child shouted at, and people dropping litter. I'm terrible for intervening. There's nothing worse than busybodies like me.… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I don't want my daughters reading about the day I was furious with one of them and said something horrible, that I didn't mean,… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
