A biography for Ruth Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“I adored 'The Young Ones,' then I grew into 'French and Saunders' and Victoria Wood.”
“I do think the Welsh have a special enthusiasm for death. My father's always going to funerals of people he doesn't know very well.”
“I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're trying to get a sense of your place in the world and the little area that your life has taken up.”
“I think people are naturally funny.”
“I like really, properly detailed, described characters.”
“I can't be bothered to put make-up on - I certainly don't wear it day to day.”
“I've probably been guilty of assuming people from by-gone generations were stuffy, two dimensional and a bit dull. But my trip on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' has proved the opposite to be true.”
“I loved my 40s but my 50s have been even better.”
“Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.”
“With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change things on the day because of the location or the actors' availability issues.”
“I think perhaps I'm a bit of an idealist.”
“I will never, ever turn down a foot massage.”
“At a personal level, I rather like it if you can create characters and storylines that don't have to rely on being crude and swearing.”
“Of course I always immediately apologise when I realise I'm in the wrong.”
“I'm blessed by having very long-term, solid friendships, and they're such joyous things.”
“I wouldn't go out of my way to go to a big celebrity bash. You have to make an effort to dress up and I'm a bit lazy really.”
“I literally found myself weeping when I was reading 'After You.'”
“All my life I've had this belief that other people are better than me.”
“The characters in 'Gavin & Stacey' do like each other.”
“I can understand why people want to know who 'the real Ruth Jones' is. That's human nature. But do you ever get that from an interview?”