I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage. Sally Phillips More Quotes by Sally Phillips More Quotes From Sally Phillips I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey. Sally Phillips monkeyspubsfunny-friend I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines. Sally Phillips pairsmagazinescutting My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them. Sally Phillips yorkshirehard-workparent The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration. Sally Phillips administrationrunningway A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful. Sally Phillips truthfulparent My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate. Sally Phillips runningmeanblood If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie. Sally Phillips computerstillsguy When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere. Sally Phillips brunettefourblonde I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde. Sally Phillips redblondehair I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone. Sally Phillips testosteronethreeboys Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people. Sally Phillips dressing-upredpeople When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke. Sally Phillips absurdsituationwriting When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous. Sally Phillips nervousifscomfort As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value. Sally Phillips writingjobsideas Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure. Sally Phillips insecuredvdslanguage Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies. Sally Phillips topicshotpast One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it. Sally Phillips queensyearsthinking Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty. Sally Phillips castscomedianwriting I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house. Sally Phillips dadhousemoving I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative. Sally Phillips coveringskinssorry
