Quotes from Sophie Dahl

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

I'd love to master another language properly.

I love cooking fish pies.

I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.

I think with girls you have a real responsibility in terms of how you discuss the physical. Talking about your looks or body in a derogatory way doesn't do them any favours.

At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.

I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.

My childhood was such an odd one, but with such magic, and the quirky grown-ups who were in it managed to still bring a huge sense of love and magic, so for that I'm really grateful.

I'm sure there were people who were disappointed that I got slimmer, but as one gets older one does often get a bit thinner. There was no great mystery: I had some puppy fat and I lost it.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

My grandfather loved the countryside.

I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as much of a fan of his work as anyone.

My grandmother is really awful sometimes.

I wish my grandparents were around to see my children.

I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.

I have a great deal of admiration for my mum.

I come from a family of greedy food lovers.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.

I am not ashamed to admit that I'm wearing Yves Saint Laurent from top to toe.

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.