Dawn French Quotes

I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

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.

My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.