Arlene Phillips Quotes

Arlene Phillips

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : May 22, 1943

I constantly diet. People laugh when I arrive at rehearsal with my box of sliced beetroot and bag of chicory, but if I indulge in a cupcake binge or a large bowl of pasta, it shows.

Arlene Phillips

When people enter any form of competition they need to be able to connect with the audience at home; that's what makes them different.

Arlene Phillips

Funny enough, apart from when I was at school, I've always gone out with younger men - I was even married briefly to one prior to Angus.

Arlene Phillips

My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home.

Arlene Phillips

Britannia High' is not for three-year-old kids. There are emotional stories in it that are not for little children.

Arlene Phillips

My family always laugh at me because they all camp and I'm definitely not a camper!

Arlene Phillips

I don't want to wear frumpy clothes just because I'm 70. I want to look good.

Arlene Phillips

I would love to see dance available to all those who want to do it. I absolutely feel that the benefits are physical and psychological.

Arlene Phillips

Mirrors are part of my life and an ever-changing source of delight, displeasure or even disaster, depending on which one I am looking in. I look in a magnifying mirror when I pluck my eyebrows in the morning, full-length mirrors every day in rehearsal, and I often nervously bring out a compact to check my make-up.

Arlene Phillips

The scary thing is how quickly everyone's star fades. Therefore, to be a voice, you need to do television. You need to stay in the public eye for the public to care about you, to be a big enough voice to help where it is needed.

Arlene Phillips

I do look at both of them and think: 'No matter what I have achieved in my career, my daughters are the best thing I have ever created.' No competition at all, really.

Arlene Phillips

In the 1960s everybody knew about Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies. No matter what class people belonged to, they were talking about these two young girls who had become mixed up in the Profumo affair. Extraordinary times.

Arlene Phillips

When I'm offered jobs that I love to do, I think 'well, why not!?'

Arlene Phillips

I would never go anywhere without a notebook and pen. I don't even sleep without a notebook and pen by my side.

Arlene Phillips

When I was teaching I'd go to some schools where no one wanted to dance - when they came into the room it was as though they were being punished. But I'd put on the loudest, the heaviest metal you could imagine and they loved it.

Arlene Phillips

If I have a financial problem, it is caution. I like to have money in the bank. I don't like taking chances.

Arlene Phillips

I wanted to dance for as long as I can remember.

Arlene Phillips

I love swimming, and when I'm choreographing something I'm in the studio dancing all day, every day.

Arlene Phillips

I think when you're doing a musical, you have to be attuned to the director's vision. You're working with a variety of people, singers and dancers, so you have to create movement and dance that is for all abilities. You have to further the story through the dance.

Arlene Phillips