Arlene Phillips Quotes

Arlene Phillips

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : May 22, 1943

It doesn't matter how old you are, with determination you can make your life what you want it to be.

Arlene Phillips

The only place I do avoid is Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve. I saw in the New Year there once - it was the most terrifying experience of my life.

Arlene Phillips

I've travelled pretty widely and have never taken a violent dislike to anywhere.

Arlene Phillips

Hot Gossip were revolutionary in some of the dance they did in the 1970s.

Arlene Phillips

When day-to-day living became too difficult for him, my father moved to a residential home near me and although he'd never had any sort of dementia test, he gradually became unable either to eat or go to the toilet on his own. Eventually the staff found him too difficult to manage.

Arlene Phillips

I hate holidays because one expects them to be perfect and so often they are not. There's the build-up, the looking forward to it and wanting everything to be right, but so many things can go wrong and then it can be such a disappointment. I find the expectation is usually bigger than the result.

Arlene Phillips

I think dancing always took me to a different place. It was hard and it was a struggle, but it took me to the kind of place I wanted to live in. It wasn't real life.

Arlene Phillips

I don't drink at all. If I'm out I'll have the occasional sip of wine just to be sociable.

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All I can say is that I am the biggest coward in the world, I'm not courageous!

Arlene Phillips

I feel like a damehood doesn't happen to people from my background.

Arlene Phillips

I haven't let people take me down a negative path, because apart from dance I don't have an addictive personality.

Arlene Phillips

I don't believe in destiny. But what I do think is that if you listen with your ears, and look with your eyes, something that doesn't appear to be an opportunity can lead to one.

Arlene Phillips

My father was very proud of everything I did and he watched my career and my growing fame with great interest, but despite my mother dying so early on in my life, my relationship with my father - who was always a very remote figure - was never easy.

Arlene Phillips

I'd been in and out of relationships, never very successfully. Then, when I met Angus, I found someone who also became my best friend in the world. And once you have somebody who you want to be with and share things with, it's fantastic. He's the total opposite of me, but somehow together we are like one whole person.

Arlene Phillips

Sometimes I'll feel content dieting - if I could only bottle that feeling!

Arlene Phillips

You need to push yourself - and others - to be the very best. If not, how will anyone get better?

Arlene Phillips

In a musical, I believe that choreographers are under a great deal of pressure. There's not always the freedom to do what you want to do, because if it ends up being too long the dance breaks are the first thing that will go, because you can't make the story shorter.

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I have always had a full-time job. I have always worked full time.

Arlene Phillips

I travel light obsessively. I take hardly any clothes or shoes because I think that all I need is a couple of work outfits, rehearsal outfits, a pair of trainers and one glamorous outfit you can re-wear and re-wear.

Arlene Phillips

TV is a cruel mistress; you can't afford to fail in any way.

Arlene Phillips