Quotes from Sally Phillips

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.

When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.