Dawn French Quotes

• We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can’t decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

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• Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That’s how I did it.

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

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• 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.

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• In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

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• If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

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

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• I want to do something where I play Judi Dench’s younger sister or daughter.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian – even though I’d like to be one when I grow up.

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• It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

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Dawn French (13)

Birth:	11th October, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Comedian, Writer

About

Dawn Roma French is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She is best known for starring in and writing for the comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and also for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.

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