Quotes from Dawn French

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

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.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

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.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.