A biography for Sandi Toksvighasn’t been written yet.
“Noel Fielding is one of the nicest guys in show business. The first time I met him, I felt like I had met a rather wayward cousin whose take on the world made me laugh.”
“There are panel shows that struggle to get women on, and that's because the women feel marginalised and stupid and in the edit are often seen just laughing at the boys and not saying anything at all even though I know for a fact in the recording they were clever. I'm not shy at speaking up, but even I, on those shows, am silenced.”
“I had tried every diet out there - I would lose weight for a bit, then put it back on again.”
“I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.”
“I am passionate about higher education and am hugely impressed by Portsmouth's mission to encourage students from every walk of life to excel.”
“I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.”
“I've always liked being able to go around incognito in Copenhagen.”
“I went to a physiotherapist, and she said something to me no one has ever said: 'Sandi, you have plantar fasciitis, because you're fat.' I left and sat in my car shaking. She'd told me the truth, which no one else had. It was painful, but I needed to hear it.”
“I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.”
“I don't care if you're from the right or left of politics - there are core objectives we can all agree on: equal pay, equal representation on the media, equal representation at board level, politics, an end to domestic violence.”
“When we laugh out loud and we realize that there are others who think the same as us, then we feel better.”
“What I think is if the world is in some difficulty - about climate change, about economics - then we had better make sure that 100 per cent of every brain available on the planet is working at full pelt to try to sort these things out.”
“I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.”
“You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.”
“Because of my fighting for LGBT rights, I have seen the possibility of change. And that gives me heart to believe that it is possible to effect change.”
“You have to stand for the things that you believe in. You have to stay strong inside.”
“The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.”
“I will try anything that doesn't involve a leotard.”
“Cheryl Cole is one of the few incredibly famous people who still seems to say what they think. I really like that; plus, I do fancy her quite a bit.”
“Us Danes have amazing pastries, but we're not a fat nation.”