Quotes from Sue Perkins

I've learnt how to develop routines. To play with each bit. To enjoy expanding on it. To get used to the stage being mine.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.

My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.

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

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

I'd like to live permanently in October 1988, when I started college. I had no responsibility and the energy to do whatever I wanted. My optimism wasn't dented by experience or low self-esteem.

For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.

I'd really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!

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

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

I make no bones about the fact that I'm over 40.

Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.

I like '24.' But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let yourself go in that one day; you just eat crisps and wander around madly ranting.

I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.

I made 'Heading Out' with a lot of love and surrounded myself with brilliant people who challenged me to do my best and also gave a great deal of love and support back. As a result, the experience was blissful.

In Hebrew, the name Susan means 'graceful lily' - in Khmer, it means 'girl with the bad puns,' and in ancient Aztec, it translates as 'she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.'

By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if you had an entirely gay comedy.

I'm not against embracing my femininity, but I've never bought into the idea that you have to wear a dress to do that.

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

Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.

I usually like 'The Guardian' and its journalistic bent, but sometimes 'The Independent.' And if I'm being totally honest, some weekends I'll have a 'News of the Screws' or a 'Sunday Spurt.' You need high and lowbrow.