Quotes from Vick Hope

I just felt really ugly growing up.

I'm in awe of people who speak other languages not just fluently but near-native. I speak French, Spanish and Portuguese and I'm pretty good, but I'd love to understand all the nuances.

When I was growing up we didn't have TV in our house which is perhaps why I work in TV because it seemed such a mythical thing!

I wanted to be white and blonde so I could be an angel in the school Nativity play. Because only the blonde girls were allowed to be the angels and angels are lovely and I just wanted to be lovely too.

I'm always up for playing around with fashion and I'm quite open to new ideas and experimenting.

For me, the ideal job would be 'The One Show' because you're constantly talking to new people.

Channel 4's 'Feel Good' is like the friends you make when you move to the big city and take your first, tentative steps into adulting, the flat-share-mates. Comedian Mae Martin is fantastic and the writing is perfect.

I counted down the days until I turned 16 when I'd be allowed to straighten my 'crazy, frizzy hair,' as the other girls had called it.

BBC One's 'Noughts and Crosses' feels like catching up with your oldest mates from home.

Everything Olivia Colman touches turns to gold, she's just so brilliant.

I've felt too stupid and inadequate amongst my ultra-intelligent course-mates, yet too geeky and opinionated for commercial radio.

I was strong willed and my parents instilled this notion of hard graft. That's how you've got to get by - nothing is given to you.

I wanted to stand out from the other kids who had gone to Eton.

We can endure much more than we think we can, but that doesn't mean we should.

I take escapism from books.

My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important that my brothers and I knew how to fend for ourselves. My dad bought me a Swiss army knife for my 13th birthday and we used to go camping and he showed me how to light fires.

For my mum, it was really important to teach me and my brothers, so it came more from her to be honest than anything else. She made sure that we just read loads of books about slavery, about black culture, about black history but I don't think everyone would have had that obviously.