Dawn French Quotes


"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."
- Dawn French
(Related: Ideas, Being, Film)

"Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it."
- Dawn French
(Related: Night, Years)

"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
- Dawn French
(Related: Comedy)

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."
- Dawn French
(Related: Life, Father, Value)

"It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon."
- Dawn French
(Related: Family, Work)

"In actual life I am a grumpy old bag."
- Dawn French
(Related: Life, Old)

"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."
- Dawn French
(Related: Painting)

"I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter."
- Dawn French
(Related: Sister, Daughter, Play, Want)

"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."
- Dawn French
(Related: Home, Personality, Stairs)

"I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first."
- Dawn French
(Related: Experience, Life, Biography, Feeling, First, Lies)

"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."
- Dawn French
(Related: Lesbian)

"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine."
- Dawn French
(Related: People, End, Play)