I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim. Dawn French More Quotes by Dawn French More Quotes From Dawn French 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. Dawn French struggle drama school I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am. Dawn French be-confident knows way I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people. Dawn French make-me-laugh laughing people 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. Dawn French war children thinking That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that. Dawn French underwear dating pants I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am. Dawn French jolly chosen who-i-am Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise? Dawn French divorce kids firsts I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person. Dawn French novelists sound thinking For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all. Dawn French shells size age I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else. Dawn French imagination writing past My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet. Dawn French teenager daughter gone I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter. Dawn French mother-daughter want play I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we? Dawn French kissing I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine. Dawn French horse play thinking In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. Dawn French actual-life grumpy bags If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush. Dawn French moss alive would-be I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart. Dawn French dressing-up heart kids That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame. Dawn French shame married kissing I am a rubbish flirt. Dawn French flirting rubbish 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. Dawn French body weight lost
