Quotes from Claudia Winkleman

I don't have any secrets; I don't believe in secrets.

Yes, of course I love little Sarah Jessica Parker. I love the fact that when she accepts awards, she thanks everyone she's ever met and inanimate objects that have 'been kind to her.' And I love the fact that she hasn't had a flesh-coloured mole removed from her forehead (I'm not making it up; have a closer look next time she's on the screen).

I don't think I'd get employed if I did pastel eye and a side parting. People would say: 'Get someone else for the job!'

I never go to parties. I never go to premieres. You can't play that game, because it's short-lived and you want a life.

If I could grow my fringe down to my shoulders to cover my entire face and occasionally peer out to answer questions I would. It's my beauty security blanket.

There is no film on the face of this earth that is as blatant a girl's film as '27 Dresses.'

I had a go with Botox but looked both scared and surprised at the same time. I don't like to be either.

I was a sucker for glamorous women in shoulderpads eating fancy things like eggs benedict.

I've always thought MySpace sounds like a new estate agency in central London run by two men who favour large-lapel suits and goatees.

I used to spend hours reading the Sunday papers, but then I had 900 children so I don't any more.

Even when my mum used to edit the paper she would come home, put us to bed and then go back to the office. She must have been exhausted. She worked on Sunday papers so I always had her on Mondays. I loved Mondays! She would always be waiting for me outside school. I remember feeling very loved.

I just don't 'get' pets.

My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances are they're going to turn out ghastly anyway. Who's to say they shouldn't have a walk-in wardrobe and possibly a stylist from the age of four?

I won a robotics championship when I was 13.

I don't believe in Chap Stick, I'm going to say that right now. Carmex can sometimes feel like too much of an attack. It's just too much sometimes.

I make a good roast chicken.

I don't like ads: I'm too susceptible. I find myself in the supermarket buying Ronseal, and I don't even have a shed.

All my life, I have avoided any sort of exercise. I don't enjoy sweating and I think people who show off about having just done 20 press-ups are pretty weird.

I am allergic to sweating. Seriously I get in shape by lying down.

I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.

I still have to stand on a box to post a letter.

I go to bed with as much makeup on as I can so I look cooler in my dreams.

I avoid envy at all costs.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.