Jennifer Saunders Quotes

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Jennifer Saunders

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 6, 1958

We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.

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We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

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Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

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My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.

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I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.

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I'm a walkawayer. If someone brings me a really crap meal in a restaurant I will tell them it's wonderful and then just never go to the restaurant again. I think that's the best way to do it generally, rather than sit and fight and annoy your head. Just pretend to enjoy it and then leave.

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I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

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I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily written and lovely and not too revealing. I went to her book launch and met her editor who said 'why don't you think about it? You can do it however you want, based on your characters or you.'

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I'm a really good driver. I've been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the first time my dad taught me that when you go into a corner you change down then put your foot right down on the way out. I'm very competitive about driving.

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I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

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I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

Jennifer Saunders

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

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I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

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When you are doing chemo, you have a load of time.

Jennifer Saunders

I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

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Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

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When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up to Ayrshire and visit relations in a place called Dalry.

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I absolutely love Scotland. I'm always happy there.

Jennifer Saunders

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

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I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.

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