Liz Carr

“Silent Witness' took nine months a year, so it did cut out an awful lot of projects that I would have loved to do. I was starting to almost resent that, because I wanted to do other things.”

“I am a control freak back seat driver; a map reading co-pilot who directs every turn of the wheel.”

“I never see anyone on TV that I can really relate to in terms of sexuality.”

“If there's one thing I hate as a wheelie, it's events where everyone is asked to stand.”

“So much is not known about disability and so much feared. I can understand that because if we're not everywhere, if access and attitudes means we don't get to mingle and be in the same places as everyone else, then how do you know who we are?”

“Since 'coming out,' I've marched in gay pride parades all around the world, I've filled my home full of rainbow tat and I've become a member of the Dolly Parton fanclub.”

“My medical case notes describe me as: 'skeletally deformed with severe contractures and stunted growth.' I prefer to think of myself as petite and slim, with an unconventionally fascinating body.”

“If you're going to be brutal about what TV's about these days, the key question is, 'Does it get the audiences?' And 'Silent Witness' gets great audiences.”

“Through more error than trial, I learnt early on as an employer what qualities I wanted and, more importantly didn't want, from a PA. I said thanks but no thanks to anyone who thought it would be rewarding, fulfilling and even humbling to 'help the handicapped.'”

“I don't eat well, exercise or do whatever is necessary to be as healthy as I can be. No, instead I obsess that every little bodily sensation that is unfamiliar or unwanted could be the beginning of the end.”

“As a young person with a condition that affected my joints and muscles, I spent far too many painful and unproductive hours lifting my legs, 'up, two, three, four and dowwwwn.' This is where my dislike and distrust of exercise began.”

“I learnt the hard way that crafting folk aren't all patchwork, pot pourri and politeness and that when it comes to the cut and thrust world of buying hand-made gifts, people can be surprisingly vicious.”

“I blame years of painful and unproductive physiotherapy for my couch potato ways.”

“Some women brag about still being able to fit into their wedding dress. Well, I can still fit into my Brownie uniform.”

“So that's where Endemol got the idea for 'Big Brother' from - residential care! No choice. No privacy. No dignity. I can see the similarities.”

“I stopped doing physio once I left home at eighteen and have been a sedentary fitness-phobe ever since.”

“I don't have a gym membership, do pilates or have a personal trainer.”

“I am from a very funny family.”

“I'm egotistical and an exhibitionist.”

“From the moment a wheelie mate of mine had told me she'd been ice-skating, I was amused and bemused by the idea. I couldn't imagine how we'd actually wheel on the ice.”