Sally Phillips Quotes

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• My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
• I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
• 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…
• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
• My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
• The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
• 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…
• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
• When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can…
• A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
• All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
• Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying…
• I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
• I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
• I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

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