Sue Perkins

I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.

— Sue Perkins

I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper…

— Sue Perkins

One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

— Sue Perkins

Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.

— Sue Perkins

It's always a treat for me to go to the British Library.

— Sue Perkins

I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas -…

— Sue Perkins

I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.

— Sue Perkins

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo…

— Sue Perkins

I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

— Sue Perkins

I came to music very young.

— Sue Perkins

“Memories are slippery bastards – bring them into the light, handle them too often, they’ll bend, change colour. Keep them in the…

— Sue Perkins

It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.

— Sue Perkins

I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.

— Sue Perkins

I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But…

— Sue Perkins

Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.

— Sue Perkins

I like '24.' But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let…

— Sue Perkins

When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it…

— Sue Perkins

My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd…

— Sue Perkins

You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher…

— Sue Perkins

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

— Sue Perkins

I have a voice inside. A voice that I am forever trying to silence. A voice that calls me in when I…

— Sue Perkins

I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.

— Sue Perkins

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

— Sue Perkins

With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

— Sue Perkins

I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.

— Sue Perkins