A biography for Arlene Phillipshasn’t been written yet.
“I have always had a full-time job. I have always worked full time.”
“Britannia High' is not for three-year-old kids. There are emotional stories in it that are not for little children.”
“For me just having a baby was incredible.”
“It doesn't matter how old you are, with determination you can make your life what you want it to be.”
“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.”
“Certainly after 'Strictly' I was in a very vulnerable situation.”
“Hot Gossip were revolutionary in some of the dance they did in the 1970s.”
“Life was a struggle financially when I was growing up in Manchester and my father continued the strict upbringing he himself had had, even after our very warm and demonstrative mother died.”
“I've travelled pretty widely and have never taken a violent dislike to anywhere.”
“I love fashion magazines and style magazines and when I'm travelling on an aeroplane I always have a big bag slung over my shoulder, which is full of magazines.”
“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.”
“Dad was a barber and Mum looked after the three of us and helped in school doing lunches. I was the middle child with an older brother, Ian, and younger sister, Karen.”
“The only place I do avoid is Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve. I saw in the New Year there once - it was the most terrifying experience of my life.”
“I love swimming, and when I'm choreographing something I'm in the studio dancing all day, every day.”
“My father was very proud of everything I did and he watched my career and my growing fame with great interest, but despite my mother dying so early on in my life, my relationship with my father - who was always a very remote figure - was never easy.”
“I Iove a dancer who is willing to take risks with their body and go that extra mile to move the audience.”
“We'd grown up without any money. I mean, everything was a struggle; our lives were a struggle, and dancing changed all of that. Nothing mattered; it was the most important thing in my life.”
“Women should have parity with men. End of story.”
“People always used to ask me 'What makes a celebrity?' and I used to say: 'Being asked to comment mostly on things you know nothing about.'”
“I love getting up in the morning and having to be here and there. It drives me - it's where I get my energy.”